Genius Quotes

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Genius speaks only to genius.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.