Genius Quotes
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
