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
“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
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
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
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to… — Franz Grillparzer 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
When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going… — Donald Trump 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
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller 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
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. — Betty Buckley 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
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't… — Matt Dallas Copy Share Image
“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image