Quotes About Genius

You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Scully zerkn??a k?tem oka na Muldera. Kiedy spa?, wygl?da? niewinnie i bezbronnie jak dziecko. Geniusz w opa?ach czy k?opotliwy szaleniec? Pozosta?o jej tylko czeka? i obserwowa?.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.

Am I mad?" "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret… all of the best people are!

I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

But there is a vital difference between them which Charles Lamb saw so clearly in his defense of the sanity of true genius: "The ... poet dreams being awake. He is not possessed by his subject but he has dominion over it." That is the whole difference: the poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease.

being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.

The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease. I did my best to music the sadness out of him.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

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

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

You can never have enough talent.

The genius of Alba de Céspedes in this book is in shattering the illusion that writing is a place of refuge, and replacing it with the certainty that it is a place that always both pollutes and sabotages us." As Valeria discovers: toward the end of the novel, she tells her daughter, "Save yourself, you who can do it.

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