Quotes About Genius

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Mani Shanker is brilliant. And working with brilliant people is exhilarating.

We all know LeBron's IQ is on another planet.

This whole golf thing was so left field for us, as Polynesians, but he had a lot of knowledge about sports in general. My dad was a genius, really. He was an absolute genius.

Pharrell is a legend.

Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Baseball's oh so simple. You tag a man, he's out. How different from being it. What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.

Talent is everything; sanity is nothing.

Men in small rooms, in isolation. A cell is the basic state. They put you in a room and lock the door. So simple it's a form of genius. This is the final size of all the forces around you. Eight by fifteen.

The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

I'm just saying it's Prince. And it's my ceremony and he's a genius so why are we even still talking about it? You already nixed the words. Let me at least have the music. Daddy doesn't care. He likes Prince too. Jeez!

There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters.

Mi ha mostrato ciò vividamente una delle novelle giovanili di Thomas Mann. Il grande genio esprime sì la cultura dominante, ma è impossibile che non faccia trapelare l'inquietudine rimanente in essa, e l'inadempienza ultima di essa. Il titolo di quella novella è Il piccolo signor Friedemann.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.