Quotes About Genius

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

There is no off position on the genius button.

I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.