Quotes About Genius

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

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

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor

Now, if you—the ingenious Dr. Leibniz—contrive a machine that gives the impression of thinking—is it really thinking, or merely reflecting your genius?" "You could as well have asked: are we thinking? Or merely reflecting God's genius?

He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math.

Avi, with his genius for imagining the most horrific conceivable worst-case scenarios, demanded that they have their own machine, and that Randy and the others go through its kernel code one line at a time to verify that there were no security holes. In

My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.

When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.

Yes, Einstein was a badass.

Being a genius doesn't make you smart, happy, or successful. In fact, sometimes the opposite. Studies have shown that people with genius-level I.Q.s are often unhappy, alienated from the society around them, impatient with people of lesser intelligence, angry at how stupid and ignorant the world is, and generally self-absorbed and untrusting. In fact, they only trust themselves and they rarely take the advice of others.