I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?” — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful… — Johann Rudolf Wolf Copy Share Image
“Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for once teach me... Teach… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
I remember one afternoon when we were out on a golf course somewhere, and Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon were… — John Heard Copy Share Image
My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why?… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
