The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Will.i.am is the genius of the group. He's the one that keeps everything together creatively. — Taboo Copy Share Image
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all. To represent them all, not just… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual,… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing. — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. — Joe E. Lewis Copy Share Image
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?” — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers - these are the heroes who know -… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
