Genius Quotes

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Genius is infinite painstaking.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.