The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines,… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“The line between genius and idiocy is a big fat freaking eight-lane highway, and if you can't see that then we know… — Greg Bechtel Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political… — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who… — Peter Nivio Zarlenga Copy Share Image
I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
