Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines,… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I say that the genius of the marketing strategy that we've had in every company that I've ever been in, is that… — John J. Legere 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
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing 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
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.” — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
Dershowitz may be a genius in some ways, but he's not necessarily the advocate you want on your side. — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
