Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned. — Tony Taccone Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
What interests Sam Mendes are characters and relationships, and he was a genius at giving you the freedom to create the type… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a poster of Iniesta. He seemed like a different player to me: elegant, special... a genius. I watched all the… — Ousmane Dembele Copy Share Image
I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius"… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image