Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What is genius but an artificial construct in the guise of an empirical truth — Jimmy Neutron Copy Share Image
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make… — Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Copy Share Image
Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious.… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
An idiot will accomplish something he desires to do far better than a genius who has been told to do the same… — Alec Sahakian Copy Share Image
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric. — Thalaivasal Vijay Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“They ask me, do I ever worry about losing my magic? I tell them, my only worry is that, some day I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish. — Ze'ev Chafets Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
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