Quotes About Genius

para todo hay genios en la viña del Señor.

Nllum magnum ingenium sine mixtr dmentiae fuit. (Seneca

Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

De hecho, si Da Vinci hubiera tenido un mantra, sería algo así como: "Esto funciona en la práctica, pero no en teoría".

The towering genius is not apolitical.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare. He told them that Jules, with his large head, might be a genius or an idiot. It turned out he was an idiot. He never spoke a word until he was five. Then, one night coming up to supper, he sat down at the table and said "Death.

Von Neumann at six joked with his father in classical Greek and had a truly photographic memory: he could recite entire chapters of books he had read.392 Edward Teller, like Einstein before him, was exceptionally late in learning—or choosing—to talk.393 His grandfather warned his parents that he might be retarded, but when Teller finally spoke, at three, he spoke in complete sentences.

Not even his most important discovery kept Fermi from going home for lunch.

It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet- You invented the internet? It was my idea , Martha said. Rats are delicious , George said. It was my idea! Hermes said. I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point.

Ah, Senor Zhang, Leo said, you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'? I'm pretty sure I never said that.

Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. Next! Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. Whoa! Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. You found it? No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts! Dan grinned with delight. He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. You're a genius, I (Percy) told Annabeth.

Genius does not excuse evil.

A truly great artist has many talents.

During the Renaissance there was a renewed interest in the relationship between genius, melancholia, and madness. A stronger distinction was made between sane melancholies of high achievement and individuals whose insanity prevented them from using their ability. The eighteenth century witnessed a sharp change in attitude; balance and rational thought, rather than "inspiration" and emotional extremes, were seen as the primary components of genius.

manic-depressive illness, we proposed to the executive director of the Philharmonic a program based on the lives and music of several composers who had suffered from the illness, including Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, and Hugo Wolf.

Schubert's posthumous Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960. Its

Her version of Lowell was not theirs, even when they were discussing the same symptoms; what to her was "mad" was to them another mark of Lowell's genius.

El doctor Weiss, que tenía un amigo en los servicios secretos del ejército, afirmaba que había 110.000 alemanes defendiendo Berlín contra un millón de soviéticos. Con su habitual sarcasmo, dijo: «Pero tenemos la moral alta, y Adolf Hitler es el mayor genio de nuestra historia militar, así que estamos seguros de que ganaremos».

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.