Genius Quotes

• When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Forces

• The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Language

• A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Genius
  • Kill
  • Conscience

• Let a man of genius make use of photography as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Photography
  • Genius
  • Raise

• One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Different
  • Achieve
  • Concentration

• One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Women
  • Looks
  • Example

• Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Pass

• The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Art
  • Genius
  • Painter

• That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • World
  • Genius
  • Masterpiece

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Common Sense
  • Modification

• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Art
  • Appreciation
  • Aspect

• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Genius
  • Illness
  • Neurosis

• For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Change
  • Existence
  • Creation

• Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.

  

  Wylie Dufresne
  • Should
  • President
  • Persons

• The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

  

  George Eliot
  • Words
  • Genius
  • Meaning

• Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Build
  • Works
  • Hide

• Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Got
  • Ray Toro
  • VMA

• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Passion
  • Judgment
  • Reasons

• Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Action
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Mirror
  • Conversation
  • Atmosphere

• It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Chance
  • Easy
  • Genius

• I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Creative

• What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

  

  Bette Greene
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Response

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