Genius Quotes

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

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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.

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

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

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

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Genius is patience.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

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.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

Genius lives only one storey above madness

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

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

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

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

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

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