Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. — Ethan Embry Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific. — Glen Powell Copy Share Image
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification — William Blake Copy Share Image
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered… — Peter Kline Copy Share Image
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain and opens… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
