Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the...

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I’ve seen genius shining off the guy.

Thor once took an IQ test, and he was scoring so high that the referees took away his ability to shoot three pointers.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud...

Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

A man’s genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Genius is sorrow’s child.

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination....

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison, I brought up the question of Ingersoll. I asked this great genius what he thought of him, and he replied, ‘He was grand.’...

I’m sort of like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine or through devolving lower into the world. This is how some people with...

Equality has no place for genius.

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Snuggling is an art. And I’m no Rembrandt—I’m a cat. I am pure cuddling genius.

Children inherit their parents’ madness.

No, I don’t admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius’s activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak,...

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Just because they didn’t know they were killing human beings doesn’t mean they weren’t killing human beings.

Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark...

To wander is to be alive.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

The unrecognized genius-that’s one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king...

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear...

An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it...

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Only a genius can play a fool.

Because I’ve learned that you can’t control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.