Genius Quotes
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.
I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.
Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.
No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
