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Quotes About Genius

Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred
~ Charles Bukowski
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
~ Charles Bukowski
He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just a bit.
~ Charles Bukowski
in fact," I told her, "I am a genius but nobody knows it but me.
~ Charles Bukowski
Mi mujer y mis 9 gatos me parecen los más grandes genios de este mundo. Lo son.
~ Charles Bukowski
Because you're not accepted doesn't necessarily mean you're a genius. Maybe you just write badly.
~ Charles Bukowski
Only when an unknown genius discovered naturally mutated grain plants that did not shatter—and purposefully selected, protected, and cultivated them—did true agriculture begin.
~ Charles C. Mann
We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
~ Hannah Gadsby
I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.
~ Alan Guth
Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!
~ John Hillcoat
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
~ Ezra Pound
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
~ Madchen Amick
The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.
~ Joshua Bell
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
~ Edmund Wilson
Intellect—even intellect that reaches the level of genius—is not the same as wisdom.
~ Thomas Sowell
he plundered the living treasure of those shelves. There was Burton's marvelous Anatomy, his staggering erudition never smelling of the dust or of the lamp...There was the dark tremendous music of Sir Thomas Browne, and Hooker's sounding and tremendous passion made great by genius and made true by faith.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.
~ Tim Burton
According to one story, Von Neumann was asked to assist with the design of a new supercomputer, required to solve a new and important mathematical problem which was beyond the capacities of existing supercomputers. He asked to have the problem explained to him, solved it in moments with pen and paper and then turned down the request. Von
~ Tim Harford
All men had their limitations. It was just that some were more dangerous than others. And while genius knew it had limits, idiocy was always unbounded.
~ Tom Clancy
He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.
~ Tom Clancy
the greatest geniuses pee and poop just like the rest of us, but that in no way suggests that we are even remotely their creative equal, except perhaps in the confines of the toilet.
~ Tom Robbins