Genius Quotes
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.