Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the…

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and…

— Harriet Martineau

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

— Randy Newman

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

— Madame de Stael

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to…

— Henry David Thoreau

...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has…

— George Henry Borrow

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

— Bob Newhart

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but…

— Anne Ursu

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

— Anonymous