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.

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

Geniusz to brak przystosowania.

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

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

If you want to be a genius, it’s easy: All you gotta say is, ‘Everything stinks.’ Then, you’re never wrong.

E=mc2

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of , just after the news of death}We were inexpressibly shocked to hear of the sudden death of your dear husband and our best loved friend. Most tenderly...

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Cats have the curiosity of a genius, while dogs have the intellect of a sack of manure covered in hair and mulch made from bark (so loud). Actually, that assessment isn’t quite fair. Sacks of...

My STD test results came back, and sure enough, I’m a genius.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God’s gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories.

If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a...

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!

In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler’s or Newton’s discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred...

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that...

At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history...

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.