Genius Quotes
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I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.
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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.
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O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
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Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.
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I am a true soul genius and, unlike certain other singers, 100 per cent man.
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The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
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There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
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Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.
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I can't take his genius any more.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
