This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.” — Amiri Baraka 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
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Finding someone’s native genius is a key that unlocks discretionary effort. It propels people to go beyond what is required and to… — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life. — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
