Brilliant Quote by James Gould Cozzens

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

— Carl Sagan

“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.”

— Gwen Bristow

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

— Chris Rock

I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really…

— Veena Sud

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them…

— William James

Genius requires an audience.

— Jacqueline Carey

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

— Jubal

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has…

— Mary Kay Ash

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the…

— Criss Jami