There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are… — Richard Shweder Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer.… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.” — Phil Dourado Copy Share Image
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance. — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
“But recent research has clearly established that genius is NOT born – it is actually a learned skill. Think about what that… — Jill Ammon-Wexler Copy Share Image
“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of… — James Clapper Copy Share Image
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