The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede --… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
“He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
If I studied the way I do during finals week all year long, I would be a freaking genius. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser.” — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Copy Share Image
I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look. — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
