Quotes About Genius

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

I was lucky enough to play with some great batsman - Matthew Hayden, Steve Smith, David Warner, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martyn who was a genius.

I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.'

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

That is the lesson that I have learnt to-night. By an act of betrayal I begot unknown to me a son who, whilst as ignorant as myself of our relationship, has come to be the evil genius of my life, to cross and thwart me, and finally to help to pull me down in ruin. It is just—poetically just. My full and resigned acceptance of that fact is the only atonement I can offer you.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Accept your genius and say what you think.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.

Edison's admirers endowed him with fantastical powers that would permit him to invent anything he wished (one

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment.