Top 100 Quotes About A Genius
#1. Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
Jack Vance
#2. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
#3. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity
Josh Stern
#4. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
Joseph De Maistre
#5. If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
Jason Calacanis
#7. Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.
James Shapiro
#8. I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
Ben Affleck
#10. The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
Leon Krier
#11. There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.
George Santayana
#12. Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Wazim Shaw
#13. To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Umberto Eco
#15. Make way! Move it, people! Lets make room for this poor woman's hideously disfigured, ginormous brain! She's a fucking genius!
Jamie McGuire
#17. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#18. If you guessed a loaf of white bread and a jar of Miracle Whip, you should run out and play the lottery right now because you are a genius. White
Glozell Green
#21. Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
Otto Weininger
#22. It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
Zach Braff
#23. As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
Simon Cowell
#25. Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Jonathan Swift
#26. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#27. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!
Peter Roebuck
#28. I might not be all that good with mathematics in class; but go into my mind; and you will see that type of mathematic I put in; in my everyday life, and you can say that I am genius in a way in the terms of mentality; but retarded in class.
Temitope Owosela
#29. I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Greg Proops
#30. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.
Patti Feuereisen
#31. In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
Adolf Hitler
#32. I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
Mary MacLane
#33. Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Criss Jami
#34. It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
Margaret Deland
#35. A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
H.L. Mencken
#36. I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.
Kate Zambreno
#37. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
#38. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#40. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
Sheila Heti
#41. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#42. What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
John Fante
#44. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.
Helen Waddell
#46. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#47. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#48. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#49. Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
Roy H. Williams
#50. The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
Simone Weil
#51. Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
Viktor E. Frankl
#52. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
Dan Brown
#53. The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . a provocative and original philosophical genius.
John D. Caputo
#54. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.
Ron Miles
#55. I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.
Jasper Carrott
#57. The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.
Jonah Lehrer
#58. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell
#59. He's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something
Woody Allen
#60. I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
Randee Heller
#61. The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
John Lydon
#63. Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.
Robert Emerson Coleman
#64. I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
Charles Fort
#65. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
#66. Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Ellen Key
#68. Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May Sarton
#69. As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him.
Soren Kierkegaard
#70. I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono
#71. Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
Honore De Balzac
#73. In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Sean Penn
#74. There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.
Leo Durocher
#75. What good is being a math genius if your life doesn't add up?
Marty Rubin
#76. Right, now he was a generous, scary, psychopath who was genius at throwing out compliments however they came and unbelievably arrogant.
Kristen Ashley
#77. Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
Richard Flanagan
#79. There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.
Janet Flanner
#81. There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
Lena Headey
#82. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
Zack Snyder
#83. Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
Bill Nighy
#84. All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.
Bertrand Russell
#85. A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy
#86. What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
#87. Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Gerald Weinberg
#88. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#89. The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Jonathan Swift
#90. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
Robert Browning
#91. Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I'm doing so well with it, I know I'm actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.
A.D. Aliwat
#92. Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
#93. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius.
Amity Gaige
#94. A genius, like a prophet, reaches into the future, but through his work.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'
Max Greenfield
#96. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
#97. Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
Edith Hamilton
#98. Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.
Debasish Mridha
#99. The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.
Ian Brown
#100. My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.
Charles Mingus
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