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

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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.

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

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

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

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.

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.

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

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!

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