Genius Quotes
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Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.
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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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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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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Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
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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.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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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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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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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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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.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
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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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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
