Genius Quotes
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Donald Trump stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
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The wardrobe guy of Blow was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
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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.
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?
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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.
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The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
