Genius Quotes
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
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The first, Emilie du Chatelet, was a woman cut to a superhuman scale. “A genius in virtually every realm of mathematics,” she outsmarted the leading male scholars of her day. In addition, she looked like a celebrity model, loved like a Lotharia, and lived like a sultana. “The wench,” said a Romeo of the age, “is formidable.” “The most brilliant member of her sex in Europe,” she was also a “passionate,” magisterial siren who captured and held the two beaux du jour of Paris, the duc de Richelieu and Voltaire.
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I think I'm a GENIUS. Point F#*king blank.
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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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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 thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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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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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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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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I am a true soul genius and, unlike certain other singers, 100 per cent man.
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Genius is infinite painstaking.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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One genius is about all a house will hold.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Intelligence and genius.
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I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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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.
