#genius

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#consider #genius #happens #i #myself

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#i #mean #scorsese #shooting #way

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#cast #geniuses #new #roads #stones

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ↗