Quotes About Genius

If Roberts had been a poet or a painter or a musician; we might have had a masterpiece. As he was neither: we had a monster

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

When he sees beings everywhere destroying each other; when he sees all youth fading, all strength failing, all genius dying, when he is face to face with the will which decreed these tragic laws, more than ever he rejoices in his knowledge, and, seized anew by the passion for truth, he is happy.

If I had writing materials, I might write a guidebook, a source of advice and inspiration for the next generation of masked criminals, bent prodigies, and lonely geniuses, the ones who've been taught to feel different, or the ones who knew it from the start. The ones who are smart enough to do something about it. There are things they should hear. Somebody has to tell them.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.

The learning of 'How' is the eternal 'Why' – unanswered! A genius is such, because he does not know how or why.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Norstrom always used to say that I had two different brains working alternatively in my head: the well developed brain of a fool and the un- developed brain of a sort of genius.

mano galvoje pakaitomis dirba dvejopos smegenys: gerai išsivys?iusios kvailio smegenys ir menkai išsivy?iusios genijaus smegenys.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

The genius of nature's intelligence is self-expression. That is why nature is infinitely varied, infinitely inventive. Prana is out link to this infinite intelligence.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

One doesn't gossip with a genius.