Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are… — Walter C Klein Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine. — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures.… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Native genius can be so instinctive for people that they may not even understand their own capability.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method. — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image