Quotes About Genius

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them

I was gotten into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in

Le traducteur de ce livre n'est point un traducteur, c'est tout bonnement un poète qui s'est pris de belle passion et de courage. Une des plus belles créations du génie anglais courait depuis un siècle par les rues avec des haillons sur le corps, de la boue sur la face et de la paille dans les cheveux;

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

You're mad, bonkers, off your head! But I'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

No one has made the art by which one makes the works of art. Each one who speaks speaks as a convocation. We live as councils of ghosts. It is not human genius that makes us human, but an old love, an old intelligence of the heart we gather to us from the world, from the creatures, from the angels of inspiration, from the dead-- an intelligence merely nonexistent to those who do not have it, but -- to those who have it more dear than life.

Eccentric and secret genius that he was, Bosch not only moved the heart, but scandalized it into full awareness. The sinister and monstrous things that he brought forth are the hidden creatures of our inward self-love: he externalizes the ugliness within, and so his misshapen demons have an effect beyond curiosity. We feel a hateful kinship with them. The Ship of Fools is not about other people. It is about us.

We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

You're the most extraordinary man I ever met with. One would think you had done nothing all your life but take people in. Captain Wragge received that unconscious tribute to his native genius with the complacency of a man who felt that he thoroughly deserved it.