Genius Quotes
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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 -
Even the brain, that most delicate and complex of all known organs, is not merely a lot of neurons added together. While a genius must have more of the gray matter than a sparrow, the idiot may have just as much as the genius. The difference between them must be explained in terms of how those substances are organized.
Ervin Laszlo
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I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.
Keith Gessen -
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
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 -
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Eugene Delacroix -
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot -
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
Jonathan Swift
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
Lois McMaster -
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 -
Genius creates from the heart and when men put love into their work there is power in it, there is a soul in the body.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
Thomas Sowell -
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
Howard Stern
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer -
I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to his/her team the other day that he/she was the smartest person in the room. It perhaps was true, but that is where self-regulation should come in. The days of one genius surrounded by a bunch of worker bees are hopefully done. I know Millennials won't buy into such a scenario.
Chip Espinoza -
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
Seneca the Younger -
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?
Bo Goldman -
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 -
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.
Stephen Spender
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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 -
The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
Elias Lyman Magoon -
J.M.W. Turner... He genuinely tried to create pictures that looked like other artists' pictures, but he always ended up filling them with his own fireworks... through his failure to mimic those whom he admired... he ended up realising his own genius and his own destiny.
Andrew Graham-Dixon -
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
John Lennon The Beatles