What Is A Genius Quotes

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

There's a genius in all of us.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

A genius is the one most like himself.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Talent works, genius creates.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.