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Quotes About Geniuses

These people without Hitler are not abnormal, not pervert[s], not geniuses," Kelley said. "They were like any aggressive, smart, ambitious, ruthless businessman, and their business happened in the setting up of a world government.
~ Unknown
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.
~ Marc Maron
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
~ Oscar Levant
We need an orchestrated, "positive liberty" world. We need geniuses to compose the symphonies, inspiring conductors to lead the orchestra, brilliant musicians for each instrument, singers able to execute fantastic harmonies, audiences capable of appreciating the highest quality and being transported out of themselves and spurred on to achieve great things themselves.
~ Unknown
Meritocracy – going back to Plato's Guardians – is about centralised authority. Meritocracy asserts that humanity can advance rapidly only under the guidance of geniuses, the smartest people in the world.
~ Unknown
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
We all admire geniuses. Before the talents. This is totemism. This is paganism where every genius, as a god, is responsible for his ability. We have become pagans of media mythology.
~ Unknown
Boldness is something that you cannot take away from the prophets and geniuses.
~ Unknown
God appeared mysterious to Moses as Moses appeared to his people. This is the whole formula of prophecy, some are called gods and some are called geniuses.
~ Unknown
Prophets are geniuses. Not of teaching some useless superstitions, but of conquering the hearts and bending the minds.
~ Unknown
Public geniuses who are able to stir the multitudes into action are great speakers, but not good listeners and that suits them well.
~ Unknown
The cosmic consciousness is linked with your soul or with one tapped in their intuitive abilities. All the geniuses can be classified into this last stage of the mind and only few people have achieved that experience of the highest type of intelligence. Some we call gods, prophets, saints and others are called geniuses.
~ Unknown
We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.
~ Unknown
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
~ Oscar Levant
Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.
~ Otto Weininger
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley