Genius Quotes
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.