Quotes About Genius

Bucky solía decir que todos los niños nacen genios y que se pasan los seis primeros años de vida perdiendo su genialidad.

Atheism is no genius, science stuff.

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.

De ce oare fluviul geniului izbucne?te atât de rar ?i atât de rar se revars? în valuri puternice ?i v? cutremur? sufletul uimit?

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Having worked with at risk youth... I noticed that when I was intentionally positive by looking beyond their "fog" and to their light they responded with their genius.

The genius, even when he endeavours only to entertain with pleasing images of nature, or instruct by uncontested principles of science, yet suffers persecution from innumerable criticks, whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and of hearing applauses which another enjoys.

A strong will can accomplish anything... There is no such thing as inspiration, and very little of genius. Dig, blooming under opportunity, results in what appears to be the former, and certainly makes possible the development of what original modicum of the latter one may possess. Dig is a wonderful thing, and will move more mountains than faith ever dreamed of. In fact, Dig should be the legitimate father of all self-faith.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

It may be said that every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.

Genius requires an audience. For all his cleverness, Delaunay was an artist and as vulnerable as any of his kind to the desire to vaunt his brilliance. And there were few, very few, people capable of appreciating his art. I did not know, then, how deep-laid a game they played with each other, nor what part in it I was to play. All I knew was that she was the audience he chose.

La genialità ha bisogno di un pubblico.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

All true genius is impersonal. It belongs not to the man through whom it is manifested; it belongs to all. It is a diffusion of pure Truth: the Light of Heaven descending on all mankind.

The difference between a genius and an ordinary man is this - the one lives in inward realities, the other in outward appearances; the one goes after pleasure, the other after wisdom; the one relies on books, the other relies upon his own being. Book-learning is good when its true place is understood, but is not the source of wisdom. The source of wisdom is in life itself, and is comprehended by effort, practice, and experience.

Fair riches come to him who strives in ways of golden gain. And fame enshrines his name who works with genius-glowing brain; But greater glory waits for him who, in the bloodless strife 'Gainst self and wrong, adopts, in love, the sacrificial life;

that if] you created the right type of corporate community, the right type of autonomous congregation, genius would flower.

There's an old saying, Buck said. A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?

If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.