Quotes About Genius

pursy, unwieldy, half cataleptic baker of Mannheim had absolutely fought six-and-twenty rounds with an accomplished English boxer merely upon this inspiration; so greatly was natural genius exalted and sublimed by the genial presence of his murderer.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.

Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.

Nick Hornby's a genius.

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole lot of averageness into one compact frame.

Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you

As I gazed at Mao's face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered how one single person could have caused the extent of misery that was prevailing in China. There must be something lacking in our own character, I thought, that had made it possible for his evil genius to dominate.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.

When Rob J. had prepared for citizenship he'd studied the United States Constitution and marveled at its provisions. Now he saw that the genius of those who had written the Constitution was that it foresaw man's weakness of character and the continuing presence of evil in the world, and sought to make individual freedom the legal reality to which the country had to return again and again.

Ahora se daba cuenta de que el genio de aquellos que habían redactado la Constitución consistía en prevenir la debilidad de carácter del hombre y la presencia constante del mal en el mundo y convertir la libertad individual en la realidad legal a la que el país tenía que volver una y otra vez.

If he goes after Sophia's father right after the divorce, then everybody knows he's whacked out over it. She'd spent some time analyzing it, running theories. Like if I want to get Theo for something, I sit back, wait, figure out how to hit him best. Then when I do, he's not expecting it and doesn't even know why he's getting it. She nodded. It's scientific, and lots more satisfying. The kid's a genius, Ty commented.

The E in SURGE is for Einstein.

the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci