The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image