Top 64 Real Genius Quotes
#1. The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.
David Foster Wallace
#2. Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
Wazim Shaw
#3. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J.G. Ballard
#4. Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.
Max Euwe
#5. Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#6. You've got to admit it takes real genius to start out with nothing and build what she has so brilliantly built. Only
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#8. In the Immortal word of Socrates...I drank what?
Form the movie Real Genius
Chris Knight
#9. I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
#11. Anyone can piss in a glass and call it brandy, it takes a real genius to name the vintage.
Andi James Chamberlain
#12. In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. I'd describe 'Psych' as 'Real Genius' meets 'Django Unchained.'
James Roday
#14. The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
George Bernard Shaw
#15. While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Michael Dirda
#16. Thoreau wrote, "Simplify! Simplify!" And, indeed, simplification is one mark of real genius.
Dan Ariely
#17. When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Jonathan Swift
#18. Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
Albert Pike
#19. Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
#20. The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
Jim Rohn
#21. Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
Thomas Gainsborough
#23. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said ... I drank what?
Val Kilmer
#24. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#25. So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
Criss Jami
#26. In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.
Carolyn Elliott
#27. Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
Orson Scott Card
#28. The defects of the West are innumerable, its crimes and errors very real. But in the end, let's not forget that we are the only ones to have the possibility of improvement and emancipation that lies in free genius.
Albert Camus
#29. I say, 'Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,
and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!
Gaston Leroux
#30. The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
Mary Hunter Austin
#31. The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
Orson Scott Card
#32. If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. The world would be a real mess if everybody was a genius. Somebody's got to keep watch, take care of business.
Haruki Murakami
#34. You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
#36. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso
#37. First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
#38. Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
Brian Herbert
#39. The real education is when you awaken and nourish and guide the inner spirit, this inner genius. The community grows from the giving of the gifts of the people in it, which is really giving from the genius.
Michael Meade
#40. I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
Rob Lowe
#41. The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.
Bill Maher
#42. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#43. My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Hank Azaria
#44. Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo and our one full poet.
J.D. Salinger
#45. The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
George Henry Lewes
#46. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#47. It's safe to say that Carroll's words weren't a stroke of luck, but of genius. Something in that book makes people relate. Wonderland must be real.
Cameron Jace
#48. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
#49. When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
Orson Scott Card
#50. There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
Vivienne Westwood
#51. Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
Victor Hugo
#52. The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
Charles M. Schwab
#53. The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#54. Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
Michael Eric Dyson
#55. In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
Jeff Greene
#56. The real geniuses are the people who love life.
Marty Rubin
#57. The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#58. Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
Rich Lowry
#59. I've met some real talents that were ... real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.
Mike Royer
#60. The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness ... but only within its subject's mind.
The power it held was real, but it was not a physical power. It was the power of persuasion, the power of illusion.
Mr. Bradshaw was a genius.
Embee
#61. Know your inner genius to experience the real treasure of your life.
Deepak Burfiwala
#62. There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.
Michael Uslan
#63. After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
Alex Scarrow
#64. Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
Dejan Stojanovic
