Quotes About Genius

A genius is someone with flaws harder to imitate than his qualities.

This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as a proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?

Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical. A man who could read was considered a genius. A man who could read without moving his lips was proclaimed either divine or demonic, depending on the agenda of whoever was doing the proclaiming.

Me prometiste contener ese genio! -Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

By a fatal law, a genius is always an idiot.

La soledad es el estado propio del genio y del elegido.

He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him.

Genius is merely childhood recollected at will.

The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.

he child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.

La génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté.

Baby, I said, I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Baby, I said, I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. She looked down at me. Get up off the floor you damn fool and get me a drink.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it's not pretty.

Zemër, i thash, Unë jam një gjeni por askush nuk e di këtë, përpos unë.

miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that.

Fast jeder kommt als Genie auf die Welt und wird als Idiot begraben.

He visto últimamente demasiados intelectuales. Estoy harto ya de esos genios insignes que tienen que soltar diamantes cada vez que abren la boca. Estoy harto de luchar por cada espacio de aire libre para la mente. Por eso estuve apartado de todos tanto tiempo, y ahora, al volver a ver a la gente, descubro que debo volver a mi cueva, hay otras cosas además de la mente: hay insectos, y palmeras y pimenteros de mesa, y yo tendré un pimentero de mesa en mi cueva, para reírme.