Clever Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Almost every intelligent invention is started with a stupid step.”

— Amrendra

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in…

— Walter Kirn

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple”

— E.F. Schumacher

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“The greatest innovations and creativity are quickly labeled “stupid” and rarely have the opportunity to come into conventional (and profit­able) fruition. Be creative anyway.…

— Richie Norton

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever…

— Louis C. K

“We stood silent. After a moment I said, "Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses." "Who says?" "Me." "Because why?" "Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'

— Anonymous

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more…

— Robert Harris

“people of “genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect…

— Adam M. Grant