Genius Quotes
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.