I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the...

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his...

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is a combination of understanding and misunderstanding. I’m understanding of your flaws, and I’m misunderstanding why you don’t try to be perfect, like I am.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

I’ll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I’ll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you...

Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we...

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It’s always been that way.

I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought ‘Genius.’ Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on,...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.