Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The only difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits. — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Finding someone’s native genius is a key that unlocks discretionary effort. It propels people to go beyond what is required and to… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. The best things in life come in threes;… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Norbert the Nutjob may have been a maniac, but lunacy and genius are very close together, and it had to be admitted,… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
