Genius Quotes
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Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
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The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
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Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
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The iPod is genius. I have 300.
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The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
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Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it and where it would be performed. So you can't really separate the creation of genius from the appreciation of it.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
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Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
