Quotes About Genius

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius is only great patience.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.

I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.