Genius Quotes
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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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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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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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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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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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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
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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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If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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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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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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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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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.
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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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The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
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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 but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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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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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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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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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.
