The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
I could talk for seven hours about Johnny Depp. There's no one like him. He has this amazing ability to watch something… — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays. — Guillermo Canas Copy Share Image
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique,… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to… — Navi Radjou Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what… — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Talking about Pep is hard, he is just a genius. He tries to change things when we need to and it works.… — Douglas Costa Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried… — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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