Genius Quotes

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.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

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.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

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.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Genius, when young, is divine.

One genius has made many clever artists.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.