An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he… — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in… — Hilary Austen Copy Share Image
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Genius does not have time to stand admiring its reflection; it has too much work to get finished.” — Benjamin Wood Copy Share Image
Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic savants. Animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“ Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
People would not take me seriously. They would say: Your father was a genius in marketing, what can you do? I had… — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains — Jane Ellice Hopkins Copy Share Image
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
