Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they… — Palle Yourgrau Copy Share Image
Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth. — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
While doing 'Ghazi,' Sankalp said he wanted me for his next film. He is a genius. There is always a mini-war going… — Satyadev Kancharana Copy Share Image
When I arrived here at Givenchy, there was a lot of confusion. Before me, there had been some great geniuses - John… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“English: "Stupidity consists of limitation, madness of limitlessness, and genius of their balance." Česky: „Hloupost spočívá v omezenosti, bláznovství v bezmeznosti a… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails,… — Neil Bogart Copy Share Image
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate… — John Noble Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to play with some great batsman - Matthew Hayden, Steve Smith, David Warner, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martyn who… — Michael Clarke Copy Share Image
Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree then it will live it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image