Genius Quotes
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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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.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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.
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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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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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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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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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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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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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.
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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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.
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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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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.
