Quotes About Genius

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Indeed, if a mathematician is asked to justify his interest in complex numbers, he will point, with some indignation, to the many beautiful theorems in the theory of equations, of power series, and of analytic functions in general, which owe their origin to the introduction of complex numbers. The mathematician is not willing to give up his interest in these most beautiful accomplishments of his genius.

'Preacher' really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I'm a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love shows that really challenge what you think about all these things. I think it's genius. I was so excited there was a role I could play on it.

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

If I could have anyone's mind for a day, I really can't think of anyone other than Einstein.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Natura ur??te uniformitatea È™i iubeÈ™te diversitatea. Poate c? în asta È™i const? geniul ei.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has only to read her novels to realize that she was nothing so bland. Her genius, her craft, and her timeless prose are no secret, but thanks to Cassandra's scissors, most other aspects of her life will probably remain a mystery.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.