Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“You don't need to be good at everything, you just need to be absolutely, unequivocally, insurmountably good at one thing. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. — Craig Bruce Copy Share Image
I'm not a mad genius or anything, but I'm just constantly driven to make things up, but I wonder who I'm doing… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“The best scenario for a genius to be born is a suburban area, not choc-a-bloc a place, for wits prefer quietness.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him. — Vanessa Ferlito Copy Share Image