Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard L. Evans

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Tupac Shakur

Even the genius ask questions.

Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Samuel Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

William Hogarth

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Walter Lippmann

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

William Irwin Thompson

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

William Carey

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

Winston Churchill

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Will Rogers

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

Zach Braff

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

Ze Frank

Let me extend that generosity to myself.

William Hazlitt

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

William Hazlitt

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

William Hazlitt

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

William Hazlitt

Dandyism is a species of genius.

William Hazlitt

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Warren Buffett

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

William Blake

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

Salvador Dali

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Joseph J. Ellis

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Joseph Joubert

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Kim Kardashian

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Keith Miller

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.