Quotes About Genius

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.

Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.

Genius is talent set on fire.

It is at the edge of excellence that genius awaits.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

I said to a Frenchman the other day: "I love genius," He answered: "A woman gives genius to the man she loves.

I love beauty but I find it easier to reject it now because I love other things more than beauty: genius, passion, nature–all of which are often manifested without beauty of form. I love ugliness because it expresses strength.

He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot possess without loving.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Greatness is not synonymous with perfection or popularity. In the long-arc narratives of male genius that reach far beyond a lifetime, greatness is established despite, and in the glaring light of, great flaws. Great men are by definition to be reckoned with and honored for the dilemmas they force us to confront, while the ways to castigate a woman of brilliance and ambition are second-nature and sometimes fatal, whether she's deemed evil or merely, as they say, problematic.

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

Now only a genius can save humanity—not a prophet, no!—a genius who will formulate a new moral ideal. But where is he, this Messiah ? There is nothing left for us but to learn to die with dignity. Cynicism has never saved anyone yet; it's the lot of the faint-hearted.

Where did the genius come from? Where did it go? Like allowing another lover into the house to live with you, someone you'd never met but whom you knew he loved more than you. Poetry every day. A novel every few years. Something happened in that room, despite everything; something beautiful happened. It was the only place in the world where time made things better.

A prodigy is a group enterprise.