“Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment” — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Himself a genius to realize that the best way to fool the people around are. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this… — John Lanchester 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
“Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we… — William Crashaw Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
