Quotes About Genius

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a FISH by its ability to CLIMB a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it IS stupid

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

Second, I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily brilliant.

Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus géniaux et les plus abominables de cette époque qui pourtant ne manqua pas de génies abominables.

A sudden gust of wind shakes the branches of trees scattering a swirl of leaves that shimmer eerily in the bright filtered light. Leaves as vowels, whispers of words like a breath of net. Leaves are vowels. I sweep them up hoping to find the combinations I am looking for. The language of the lesser gods. But what of God himself? What is his language? What is his pleasure? Does he meld with the lines of Wordsworth, the musical phrases of Mendelssohn, and experience nature as genius conceives it?

A sentimental drunk and full of gin 'n' juice pride, he'd brag to our black neighbors how I'd never spent a day in day care or had a sandbox play date. Instead, he swore up and down I was nannied and mammied by a sow named Suzy Q and was the loser in a sibling "piglet versus niglet" rivalry to a porcine genius named Savoir Faire.

Maybe morons can't become brain surgeons, but a genius can be either a cardiologist or a postal clerk. Or a bus driver. A bus driver who made some fucked-up choices.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

The lives of Einstein and Schrödinger inform is that even the most brilliant scientists are human

Who will be the next Einstein? Will his ingenious contributions ever be surpassed? Is there anyone brilliant enough to complete his dream of a unified theory of nature?

We see global warming not as an inevitability but as an invitation to build, innovate, and effect change, a pathway that awakens creativity, compassion, and genius. This is not a liberal agenda, nor is it a conservative one. This is the human agenda.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Parte do talento excepcional de Einstein residia em sua capacidade de refletir sobre os mais complexos problemas e fórmulas e perceber os princípios fundamentais sobre os quais estes se sustentam.

David Bowie had grasped a fundamental truth: before you can be a genius, you have to seem like a genius.

these drugs were initially derived from the nitrogen mustard gas experiments during World War I and World War II. These poisons—and that's exactly what they are—kill all fast-growing cells. Well, since cancer cells are fast growing, some genius decided to try these chemicals on cancer.

She could either give birth to a fool who would live long or be blessed with a genius who would die young.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.

Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanized automaton.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanised automaton.

a genius of means, barren of ends