#genius

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ↗

— Josh Billings

#common sense #enough #genius #instinct #sense

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? ↗

— Artur Davis

#blast #children #genius #glorified #hear

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#capacity #definition #genius #geniuses #infinite

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#fact #genius #impeachment #lay #man

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#deny #favorite #films #genius #hitchcock

The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#idiots #age

When you come across with the ideas that you don’t like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#freedom

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#genius #humor #want #humor