Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius.” — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets. — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will spend its whole… — Albert Copy Share Image
We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“...you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you… — Emma Darcy Copy Share Image
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system… — Andrew Harvey 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
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
