Genius Quotes

He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Even genius is tied to profit.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

I never said I was a genius.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Giving calls for genius.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

Genius is its own end.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.