Quotes About Genius

This modern craze for biographical information leaves me cold for many reasons. For one thing, it's always inaccurate; for another, it's so bound up with publicity and other varieties of idiocy that it gags a person of any sensibility. For another, to be heralded is to become a candidate for the newest list of "the busted geniuses of yester-year" of whom I hope never to be one.

I've invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.

Much is said about brilliance. Less attention is paid to those who live next to it. Spouses, children, assistants…if anyone thinks of us at all, it's generally to remark upon how lucky we are to bask in the light of genius.

It was Waldo Emerson who would stay, bound to his "imperfect" marriage "because he dont believe in any thing better," and unable to forget Margaret, who, he would realize with increasing gratitude in later years, with her "radiant genius & fiery heart was perhaps the real centre that drew so many & so various individuals to a seeming union.

A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.

Disciplines like math, engineering, and computer science pardon a whole host of antisocial behaviors because the perpetrators are geniuses.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

For that fine madness still he did retainWhich rightly should possess a poet's brain.

He's a genius with my Prius," says the co-owner of Left Bank Books, the town's independent bookstore. The

Isolation is the raw material of greatness; being alone is hazardous to our health. Few other conditions produce such diametrically opposing reactions, though of course genius and craziness often share a fence line. Sometimes even voluntary solitude can send a person over to the wrong side of the fence.