Genius sits in a glass house — but in an unbreakable one –conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The...

The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

* If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

this was business.

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They’ll think you’re a genius.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

A few lessons learned as a teacher: I’ve learned that if you whisper, children will listen…a scribble can be anything (I mean anything!) a monster, a cat, a mom, a dad–our job is to ask...

Geniuses don’t become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna’s otherwise so carefully cherished genius

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let’s make damn sure we’re the ones alive at the end.

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here’s the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Enmerson’s interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a...

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one...

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

A genuine leader leads by examples only and listens to all but trusts only what he experiences himself than believing even the trusted ones.

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier’s execution during the French Revolution}Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and...

There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater.

Love is like a river flowing through your heart. I’ll bring the boat, if you bring the bridge.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way,...

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can’t understand, will certainly think of you...

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. “What a refreshing mind you have, young man,” he said. “There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

…bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius – not the display of talent…

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness...

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more...

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.

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.