Top 41 Genius Fool Quotes
#1. A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
T. Boone Pickens
#2. Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Bullshit takes no genius,
even fool senses its' foul.
Toba Beta
#4. Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'
Emil Zatopek
#5. Any fool can make things complicated, it requires a genius to make things simple
Ernst F. Schumacher
#6. Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
Amy Vanderbilt
#7. Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.
David Ogilvy
#8. I am not some frill-wearing tramp. I am a genius. I say this because it is a fact. I am smarter than any person you've ever met, except perhaps my twin. My heart does not make my brain a fool.
Pierce Brown
#9. intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein Autobiographical Notes
Joel Wallach
#10. A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman
#11. Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
Oscar Wilde
#12. Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss Jami
#13. Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.
David Ogilvy
#15. There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
Ambrose Bierce
#16. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
Stephen King
#18. Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
Pete Seeger
#19. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J.G. Ballard
#20. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.
Ernie J Zelinski
#21. Norstrom always used to say that I had two
different brains working alternatively in my head:
the well developed brain of a fool and the un-
developed brain of a sort of genius.
Axel Munthe
#22. Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.
Rachel Caine
#23. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#24. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
#26. There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.
Steve Case
#27. It's amazing how man still believes in words. For example, if you call him a fool and don't beat him, he'll be wretched. Call him a genius and don't give him any money - he'll be quite satisfied.
Ivan Turgenev
#28. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss Jami
#29. Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
#32. Could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. It
Virginia Woolf
#33. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
Robby Krieger
#35. In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
Wences Casares
#36. ...you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.
Emma Darcy
#37. Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
E.F. Schumacher
#39. As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily's nature - the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.
L.M. Montgomery
#40. A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
Abdul Kalam
#41. Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.
Niquenya D. Fulbright