...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart. — Juliette Drouet Copy Share Image
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.” — Eugène Delacroix Copy Share Image
Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie. 'Cause… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
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
Why can't I just be one of those really smart people who pass everything with no effort... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like art that's simple but feels kind of genius - like David Shrigley or David Hockney. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. — Frederic Henry Hedge Copy Share Image
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler 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
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain 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
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
