Quotes About Genius

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall. I

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall.

It is possible to see here again the constants in these matters. Associated with the wealth of the Banque Royale, Law was a genius—intelligence, as ever, derived from association with money. When the wealth dissolved and disappeared, he was a fugitive mercilessly reviled.

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.

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

The greatest challenge of science, its art, lies in asking an important question and framing it in a way that allows it to be broken into manageable pieces, into experiments that can be conducted that ultimately lead to answers. To do this requires a certain kind of genius, one that probes vertically and sees horizontally.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Equality has no place for genius.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

Soon our conversations spilled out of the night's confinement. I surprised myself with how much there was to say, about everything, the beach and dinner and one boy or another. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant,; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?