Art Quote by Lauren Oliver

“The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited…

— Giacomo Casanova

“that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually…

— Peter Kreeft

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

“I have worked tirelessly to understand why so many bright, smart, capable individuals remain snared in the death grip of the nonessential.”

— Greg McKeown

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Sometimes to be calm and composed is the greatest weapon against fools and idiots. Agreeing with their stupidity renders them helpless and powerless.”

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“I am in the prime of senility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to…

— Terry Pratchett

“We can be sure of tale; We can only pray for genius”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin