Quotes About Genius

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

A Gemini is a cross between a drunk and a genius.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Even a genius, without spiritual awareness, is still just a great calculator

There are few chapters in the biography of the childhood of men of genius more significant than those which describe imaginary worlds which were, for a time, as real as the actual world in which the boy lived.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Though such depictions of Kehoe as a kind of junior Thomas Edison who eventually turned his "inventive genius" to evil purposes were wildly exaggerated, it is clear that he possessed exceptional mechanical skills. Records show that he was "at the head of his high school physics class."6

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life.

This is what Grandma was worried about, you know.' 'Me eating a whole chocolate cake practically all by myself in a single sitting?' 'You falling in love with a computer geek. Sure, they have good stock options and smokin' hot bods, but what about that dark side of genius that reanimates the dead?

He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

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

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.