Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell 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
There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization… — Myron Sharaf Copy Share Image
“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
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
You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if… — Plato Copy Share Image
Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury;… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are three ways to take down a wild tusklan. The average hunter takes a large-bore weapon with which to shoot the… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“Geniuses don’t go mad,” he said. “That’s what people don’t understand. They get out so far out that the water is like… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London,… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
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