He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept...

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness...

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

Remember William Blake who said: “Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told...

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad’s- and grinned. ” Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius.”pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

It is in everyone’s interest that every person’s creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the...

We have no need for genius – genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh…

To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality...

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain...

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a...

However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he’s a genius.

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

Everyone is born a genius.

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music which the ear half catches but lets fall; a...

Robert Ingersoll’s character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be… none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of...

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

The power of a person’s mind is in the strength at the depth of his heart through out the length of his life.

Si noti il meraviglioso «Mi sembra…» iniziale, che ricorda l’«Io penso…» con cui Darwin introduce nei suoi taccuini la grande idea che le specie evolvono, o l’«esitazione» di cui parla Faraday quando nel suo libro...

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to...

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

Love is a bronze statue sinking in quicksand. But if I hand you a lasso, will you try to save the statue—or use the lasso to hang yourself? If you need me, I’ll be here...

Don’t wait till tomorrow to achieve your goals, live in the present and look forward to the future. Forget yesterday and start living today.

There is no such word as Genius, it is just the combination of hard work and determination.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is...

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing – I thought they were genius in knowing that’s as much as a listener can take.

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful...

True genius without heart is a thing of nought – for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Genius is intensity

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

But his own mind was helpless against every moment’s headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by...

One night I was layin’ down,I heard Papa talkin’ to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.’Cause it’s in him and it’s got to come out.