“ There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you have two people who are the smart girls, then the 'smart' ceases to exist; they're just women who are smart. — Beanie Feldstein Copy Share Image
“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We want to make Bing more than just search: to be the key intelligence engine behind the phone, get people to navigate,… — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a… — Jonathan Grayer Copy Share Image
A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible. — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius. — Mia Michaels Copy Share Image
“You can use your intelligence to fuel chronic anxiety and self-criticism, or you can use it to understand yourself” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Is your wife the devil? That is the reason the bible says we should cast out devil. Is your husband the devil?… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image