Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it. — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius. — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can learn more from watching an idiot than you can from listening to a genius — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field. — Adah Isaacs Menken Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen. — Yul Vazquez Copy Share Image
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.” — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic –… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
