Genius Quotes

• 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.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Remains
  • Fears
  • Mediocrity

• 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.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Genius
  • Illness
  • Neurosis

• The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

  

  Ellin Devis
  • Genius
  • Judging
  • Manner

• 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
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Creates

• Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Poverty
  • Genius
  • Faculty

• To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

  

  Joyce Cary
  • Wisdom
  • Genius
  • Forgive

• 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.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Accomplishment

• Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Single
  • Genius
  • Grounded

• 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
  • Knows
  • Matter
  • Mets

• Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Tragedy
  • Idiot
  • Village

• It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • Novel
  • Triumph

• Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Use
  • Term
  • Critics

• 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.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• Genius has no brother.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Brother
  • Genius

• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Genius

• If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

  

  Davis Love III
  • Genius
  • Explain
  • Could

• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Mirror
  • Conversation
  • Atmosphere

• 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.

  

  Chilly Gonzales
  • Style
  • Equal
  • Complicated

• 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.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Genius
  • Flats
  • Sparks

• Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Purpose
  • Genius
  • Observation

• From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Equality
  • Point
  • Exception

• 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.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Exposition

• 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.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Guy
  • Looks

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