Top 31 Quotes About Genius And Stupidity
#2. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#3. One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#4. I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.
Erdem Moralioglu
#5. Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#6. Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels.
Philip K. Dick
#7. When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects]
Jonathan Swift
#9. Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#10. There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
David Farland
#11. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
#13. Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#14. I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.
Dave Matthews
#15. He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.
Mike Judge
#16. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
#17. And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken for it, and if it could not, when seen from the outside, appear as progress, genius, hope, and improvement, doubtless no one would want to be stupid, and there would be no stupidity.
Robert Musil
#18. My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
Bernie Sanders
#19. Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
Henry Harland
#20. Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
#22. The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.
Arianna Huffington
#24. There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.
Suzanne Crowley
#25. Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#26. In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
Walter Bagehot
#27. If there were a master of stupidity in this world,
I would really love to listen to his success story.
Toba Beta
#28. Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.
Smith Wigglesworth
#29. A utopian future where we shed our bodies and upload our minds into computers and live forever, virtual, immortal, disembodied. Heaven for hackers.
Brian Christian
#30. Humanity goes to stupidy, this part is hard to be changed it's like paradox. You can't fight with paradox.
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Oh, you are genius, so genius with this stupidity!
Deyth Banger
#31. 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