What Is A Genius Quotes

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

Don't be jealous of my genius.

Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.