Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“ Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.” — Anders Hald Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western… — Peter Noone Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
“When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heres to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes¦ the ones who see… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius. — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
