Quotes About Genius

The music becomes boisterous and acoustic, at the low end of genius but brilliant in spirit and tone. It is joy by fiddle, laughter by accordion, Ireland through to the bone.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

It's too bad our problems are not solved more easily. But that is an old stupid complaint. Still the others are stupid. It is as if to save ourselves we had to save them too. That is why genius must suffer- it has to bear the burdens of the whole world. Our happiness and reality depends on the happiness and reality of others.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are…. Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….

My immune system gets stronger each day. I lead with courage in my life. I am an unlimited genius. I am always aware of the power within me and all around me. I believe in myself. I embrace the unknown.

There are genes for an unlimited genius mind, for longevity, for immortality, for an uncompromising will, for the capacity to heal, for having mystical experiences, for regenerating tissues and organs, for activating the hormones of youth so you have greater energy and vitality, for photographic memory, and for doing the uncommon, just to name a few.

My definition of genius, then, is to be uncomfortable and to be okay with being uncomfortable.

Cuántas veces en la historia personas tachadas de herejes e insensatas que sufrieron el menosprecio de los demás acabaron convirtiéndose en genios, santos o maestros? ¿Te atreves a ser original?

Ludwig van Beethoven, as you may have heard, was deaf.

The true genius knows only his dependence and weakness, or the bounds of his gifts. The equation of his powers is a negative quantity.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Sebastian Bach

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever be decried by the world as drunken or insane.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.