Quotes About Genius

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

And who knows what our neighbor is, after all? A saint, an angel unawares, a genius, an artist, a devil, a dreamer of great dreams, or an abscess in the form of a man? Who knows? We never really see each other, and that is at once the mystery and the terror of living.

You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn't come along nearly as often as advertised.' Blake Crouch

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I love Spike Jonze. He's brilliant.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.