Genius Quotes

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.