#genius

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#genius #hiroshima #leads

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#also #audition #commercial #funny #genius

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#genius #recovery #will

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#behind #genius #gonna #i #left

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#better #color #differ #drawing #expression

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people! ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american people #creativity #economy #enterprise #entrepreneurship

The lucky person passes for a genius. ↗

— Euripides

#lucky #lucky person #passes #person