Quotes About Genius

Oversleeping will only save you from having wild imaginations during the day. But those same imaginations are necessary in every genius. You need them while you are awake and not asleep!

Relying upon facts is claiming that you "know it all", while a genius must go beyond these facts and prove them on his own.

Self-talk is beautiful. That's the roam where the genius gains his inspiration; but the average man is crushed to the ground.

The genius may appear selfish, but most of his intentions are always innocent and pure.

This generation has discovered the secret to getting stronger physically, but no one seems to care about the secret to becoming a genius or in good mental shape.

You must be a genius to do business. Otherwise, be armed with a basket full of tricks.

You must be ready to be called a 'madman' too, another name for genius in our generation.

It took not only genius but considerable [70] chutzpah to see, and to say, that the symbol which spoke of the horrible 'justice' of Caesar's empire could now speak of the restorative justice of the true God.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said—as quoted by Della more often than Liv cared to count—"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Some people see things others cannot, and they are right, and we call them creative geniuses. Some people see things others cannot, and they are wrong, and we call them mentally ill. And some people, like John Nash, are both.

Tragedy is the school of genius; it is the duty of sovereigns to encourage and support it.

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, it is meditation.

The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius

was right. His much-vaunted mind had done

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.