Genius Quotes

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

...genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

Genius is a rising stock market.

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.