100 Quotes About Geniu

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective. Robert Musil

Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work Sesan Kareem

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea.. The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous. Unknown

I used to love the saying, 'If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.' It sounds great, right? The only problem is that, as it turns out, it’s not even remotely true. Worse yet, it encourages people to passively wait for someone else to give them a break. Most people who do that will grow old waiting for someone to come along and recognize their genius. John Hawkins

Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What was about to crush us suddenly parts before us and we shoot forward with the sudden vitality of life, fueled by the living imagination needed to survive. Michael Meade

Madness is the acme of intelligence. Unknown

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it. Michael R. LeGault

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. Diane Setterfield

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

If it sounds good, it is good. Louis Armstrong

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control Bangambiki Habyarimana

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. Unknown

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person. Michael Meade

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist. . Agatha Christie

This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England. Andrea Mays

I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife. 'I am nothing, ' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'..the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again.. . Lauren Groff

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. Vishwas Chavan

I refuse to settle for what you call reality. Solange Nicole

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world. Bryant McGill

The mainspring of genius is curiosity. Charles Baudelaire

You're a Genius all the time Jack Kerouac

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her. Priya Parmar

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy. Abraham Kuyper

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books Unknown

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. Iain M. Banks

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. Pat Conroy

Girls did that then — knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic. Margaret Atwood

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race? Georges Cuvier

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Novalis

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write books promoting the cult of other great men! It's really very funny, and worth the price of admission! It will all end up with every village having his own great man - a lawyer, a novelist, and a polar explorer of immense stature! And the world will become wonderfully flat and simple and easy to master . . Knut Hamsun

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with. Knut Hamsun

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. Ben Jonson

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. Edgar Allan Poe

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. Albert Einstein

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age Barbara Leaming

You gleefully say, “I just thought of something! ”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes. David Eagleman

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius. Ogwo David Emenike

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss Heather Brewer

The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail. The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius - a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. "A genius working alone, " he says, "is invariably ignored as a lunatic." The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find; a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. "A person like this working alone, " says Slazinger, "can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shaped should be." The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. "He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting, " says Slazinger. "Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey. . Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits. Kate Karyus Quinn

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness Erich Segal

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

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. Malcolm Bradbury

You never know your true genius untill you do what you love Wouter Van Gastel

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual. Otto Weininger

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent, ” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. Sarah Vowell

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. George Bernard Shaw

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

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Louisa May Alcott

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Edward Robert BulwerLytton

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. Charles Baudelaire

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. Kathleen Winsor

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. I always wondered, ``Why has nobody discovered me?'' In school, didn't they see that I'm cleverer than anybody in this school? That the teachers are stupid, too? That all they had was information that I didn't need? I got fuckin' lost in being at high school. I used to say to me auntie ``You throw my fuckin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous, '' and she threw the bastard stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fuckin' genius or whatever I was, when I was a child. It was obvious to me. Why didn't they put me in art school? Why didn't they train me? Why would they keep forcing me to be a fuckin' cowboy like the rest of them? I was different I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to draw or to paint - express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into being a fuckin' dentist or a teacher . John Lennon

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. Michelangelo Buonarroti

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. Eoin Colfer

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. Jennifer Donnelly

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain. Margaret Atwood

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence! Patricia Polacco

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

WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. Julian Barnes

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. John Stuart Mill

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. Unknown

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity. David Farland

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Genius is full of trash. Herman Melville

Geniuses have the shortest biographies. Claire Messud

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy De Maupassant

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Denis Diderot

There is no off position on the genius button. CBS News

There have only been two geniuses in the world – Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. Tallulah Bankhead

On, I don't think I'm a genius! ' cried Josie, growing calm and sober as she listened to the melodious voice and looked into the expressive face that filled her with confidence, so strong, sincere and kindly was it. 'I only want to find out if I have talent enough to go on, and after years of study be able to act well in any of the good plays people never tire of seeing. I don't expected to be a Mrs. Siddons or a Miss Cameron, much as I long to be; but it does seem as if I had something in me which can't come out in any way but this. When I act I'm perfectly happy. I seem to live, to be in my own world, and each new part is a new friend. I love Shakespeare, and am never tired of his splendid people. Of course I don't understand it all; but it's like being alone at night with the mountains and the stars, solemn and grand, and I try to imagine how it will look when the sun comes up, and all is glorious and clear to me. I can't see, but I feel the beauty, and long to express it. Louisa May Alcott

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be. Susan Juby

Genius is finding the invisible link between things. Vladimir Nabokov

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss. Guillermo Del Toro

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows! Mehmet Murat Ildan

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. Jonah Winter

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. William Saroyan

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh... Henry Miller