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
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
“A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
