Genius Quotes

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius,...

About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildn...

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have bee...

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``W...

If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed...

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, men...

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to h...

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy ...

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in co...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, ca...

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The ...

WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one cou...

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve ...

That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was als...

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the worl...

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it ha...

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and ...

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time ...

If it sounds good, it is good.

On, I don't think I'm a genius!' cried Josie, growing calm and sober as she listened to the melodiou...

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing...

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious ...

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if ...

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structur...

It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expa...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What wa...

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civ...

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now thr...

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early ...

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said....

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly m...

Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much...

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again ...

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled i...

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalis...

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it,...

In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human...

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Let's fly away and live forever

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed,...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets ...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

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

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a gen...

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); geniu...

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain ...

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter wher...

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that...

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchest...

Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Pea...

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mis...

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of im...

Talent works, genius creates.

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direct...