Genius Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
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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.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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Genius has no brother.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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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.
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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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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.
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Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
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Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
