Genius Quotes

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Genius is never understood in its own time.

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

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocriti...

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The Genius Of The Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman bein...

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing i...

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id...

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not t...

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No...

Mr Brocklehurst: Do you know where the wicked go after death?Jane Eyre: They go to hell, was my read...

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. The...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Re...

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than t...

You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amo...

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen ge...

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of cal...

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a l...

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying th...

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

this was business.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition a...

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he ...

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied ...

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek fo...

There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his ge...

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessa...

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Children inherit their parents' madness.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the c...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing n...

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavi...

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the ...

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the con...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a ...

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is lea...

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are will...

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth,...

Genius is full of trash.

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to...

Genius is patience.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. Th...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

You're a Genius all the time

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blan...

There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow ...

A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been suff...

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a con...

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius,...

About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildn...

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have bee...

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``W...

If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed...

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, men...

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to h...

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy ...