Genius Quotes
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
