“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss… — Ali Sheikh Copy Share Image
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
