Genius Quotes

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Genius is eternal patience.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Only a genius can play a fool.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.