There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know. — Brett Hull Copy Share Image
“Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make… — Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Copy Share Image
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived... — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility.… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because… — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
