Quotes About Genius

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

This phenomenon has been called the wisdom of crowds. But like most simplifications, this has a flip side, as in the Madoff case. Here there were just two answers, fraudster or investment genius. The crowd voted for investment genius and got it wrong. I call the flip side to the wisdom of crowds the lunacy of lemmings.

we are chemosensory idiots. By comparison most other organisms are geniuses.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall, unfairly so to other scientists.

I am not certain but the partition which separates madness from genius is much thinner than most of us suspect.

The sea does not require to be recognized, and neither it falls into the rivers, nor it hinders falling the rivers into it. Similarly, intellectual, genius the sea of wisdom figures do not need and look for the applauses and appreciations, but they are naturally and automatically honoured by those who feel and understand their wisdom and thoughts

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

No artist is ever happy with all the work they produce, so why should their critics be? Let artists be revered for their best works of art—even if it happens but once in a lifetime—and forget about the rest. All too often art is a wondrous accident, and it is folly to seek genius in its maker.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius; and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist.' Edward Gibbon

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea shining in his head frightened people and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Israel foresees and foretells; her religious genius has a spirit that is unshackled by the bonds of time, and her Yahweh speaks close to her ear.

A genius is always serious about his roles and responsibility towards the welfare of the society.

A person who is truly genius is not measured by his capability to solve a mathematical equation but by his capacity to resolve the problematical issues by empathizing with the human emotions of the people.

A substantiated proof that the world has a vast majority of people only fools is that the history shows that a genius born in every generation has been regularly treated bad to make him sad & always considered mad by the public; so a thought-provoking question is how could a person who often gets the support of good number of the people be ever good truly to others.

Genius knows the comedy is all about being serious whereas others think that doing comedy and serious roles in movies are two different wide apart poles.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature.

Mozart was taking 'dictation from God'.