#genius

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #creativity #dr-jekyll #dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde #genius

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy. Then they'd come home and take over Earth. OK, not that. -Peter ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#colonization #genius-children #peter-wiggin #home

A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into tactics. He can drop tactics for strategy without anyone or anything realizing it. He can comprehend grand principles of creation effortlessly and flawlessly. His capacity for knowledge surpasses even my own, and it's not because he constantly takes steps forward. It's because he has unconsciously taught himself to understand the principles behind possibility and nothingness. That is a true genius. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#genius

Einstein's greatest influence was that he continues to inspire so many people to become synonyms for something. Genius is already taken, but a lot of other places and things still need patronymics. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #genius #humor #synonyms #inspirational

Madness is the acme of intelligence. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#intelligence #madness #mahfouz #naguib #intelligence

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#geniuses #luckiest #mortals #most #must

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#equality #exceptions #geniuses #idiots #men

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#been #enough #genius #idea #ideas

The lucky person passes for a genius. ↗

— Euripides

#lucky #lucky person #passes #person