Genius Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

Genius is clairvoyant.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.