Genius Quotes

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

Sticking to it is the genius.

Genius has no brother.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Everyone is born a genius.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Genius is full of trash.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.