From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who… — Boudleaux Bryant Copy Share Image
The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made man, the "black" Pelé he made him… — Cesar Luis Menotti Copy Share Image
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
