An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing. — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert 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
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one. — Lisa Lopes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius. — Warren Spahn Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself. — Lita Grey Chaplin Copy Share Image
Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
