Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination;… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,… — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well. — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius… — William C. Roberts Copy Share Image
I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
