Genius Quotes

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Genius is fostered by industry.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

Geniuses never pay attention.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

Out of necessity comes genius.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

Genius is born-not paid

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.