Genius Quotes
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.
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In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
