Genius Quotes
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.
Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.
It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.
Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.