Quotes About Genius

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Mark Labbett, maths genius as he undoubtedly is, has every statistic imaginable. There is a reason for that. All the stats make him look like a legend.

Glenn's passing was so unexpected and has left me with a very heavy heart filled with sorrow. He was so young and still full of amazing genius. He was an extremely talented songwriter, arranger, leader, singer, guitarist - you name it - and Glenn could do it and create 'Magic' on the spot.

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

God's genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.