Quotes About Genius

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero.

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

even when the individual and societal benefits of changing a specific behavior are indisputable, we are geniuses at inventing reasons to avoid change. It is much easier, and more fun, to attack the strategy of the person who's trying to help than to try to solve the problem.

But how do you tell someone your genius ex-boyfriend invented microscopic nanobots to retrieve wayward sperm? You don't.

Yep. I'm officially convinced. Crazy and brilliant are the same thing.

Of course', Churchill told Linlithgow, 'my ideal is narrow and limited. I want to see the British Empire preserved for a few more generations in its strength and splendour,' and he added, 'Only the most prodigious exertions of British genius will achieve this result.

The great men of science are supreme artists.

E poi ascoltare qualcuno che esprime opinioni eterodosse, al contempo violente e empatiche (la geniale equazione di cui solo pochi conoscono la formula), è un piacere troppo raro.

This is the genius of Don Quixote, a helpless fool who is mad as hell at the world, capturing our collective experience of modern mechanical civilization.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle

Calvin): People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. (Hobbes): Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

To this end pitiful woodwork had been used instead of solid masonry; rickety ceilings had been propped up by fragile rafters, and beams that threatened on every stormy night to fall upon the heads of those beneath them; doors whose specialty was never to be shut, yet always to be banging; windows constructed with a peculiar view to letting in the draft when they were shut, and keeping out the air when they were open. The hand of genius had devised this lonely country inn;

Digamos entonces que el alma se asemeja al poder conjunto de un tronco de corceles alados y un auriga. Pues bien, los caballos y los cocheros de los dioses son del mismo genio y de la misma casta, pero los de los hombres son distintos [...]

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Likewise, these unidentified geniuses wrestle with self-doubt despite their confident and accomplished facade.