Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
The technical genius which could find answers ... was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is great work to be done, and the women will lead us. So I say, Astonish us with your genius. Inspire… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set… — Rick Rosner Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image