Books Quote by Romain Rolland

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an…

— Oscar Wilde

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they…

— Stephen King

“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

“The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools.…

— Nathan Yocum

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Carl Sagan

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

— Ezra Pound

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the…

— Myrna Loy

“We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists…

— Alice Walker