Quotes About Genius

Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.

A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.