Genius Quotes
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.
A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.
True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
