Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that… — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
“The best scenario for a genius to be born is a suburban area, not choc-a-bloc a place, for wits prefer quietness.” — Lana M. Rochel Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense — Jason Zebehazy Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
