Why can't I just be one of those really smart people who pass everything with no effort... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. — Simon Cowell 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
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani… — Arfa Karim Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a… — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! — William Blake Copy Share Image
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius. — Derek Landy 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
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
“Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.” — James McGregor Copy Share Image
I love 'My Boy,' like I think that song is so genius and clever and fun. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image