Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, “Why has nobody discovered me?” In school, didn’t they see that I’m cleverer than anybody in...

It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

So the whole war is beause we can’t talk to each other.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that...

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which...

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He...

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.

There’s a Genius in all of us.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like...

I think ‘Game Of Thrones’ has been genius, and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.”The sign read:”Hold stick near...

When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author’s getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: “Mostly I try to remember...

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is...

My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there…

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

L’essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritto magnifiche poesie, dato interpretazioni del mondo, inventato mitologie etc… Ma allo stesso tempo non ha smesso di fare la guerra ai...

It’s too short,’ she said, ‘ever so much too short.’ Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,...

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world’s defects.-pg 129

Robin Williams is one more example, that genius people are genius for a reason, and that reason is feeling without reasoning. Depression is for sensitive people. Sensitive people sense the world as it is, and...

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such...

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never...

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn’t have been, because he...

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Jeff is your typical eccentric genius. He locks himself away for months at a time with no human contact just to come up with great formulas for evaluating sports. It’s fun to work with him,...

Let’s fly away and live forever

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt hat, as he walked briskly but rather ungracefully across the college yard, fitted...

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.