Quotes About Genius

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Mesut is one of those unique players you see every once in a while. He has the gift of a perfect touch in tight spaces that makes him special.

Lionel Messi reminds me of George Best, the way he would run with the ball tight to his foot.

When we are operating in tight spaces and when the opposition are closing us down, players like Messi can help us to create openings.

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

The "delirium tremens" of alcoholic drunkards has unmistakable symptoms, but that of those intoxicated with theories is easily confused with genius.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Tenochtitlán, the once-magnificent, fell to Cortés. It lay, a heap of ruins, a charnel-house containing thousands of unburied corpses. Its overthrow was a masterpiece of military genius, valor, and enterprise. Everyone knew that it would take its place among immortal deeds of arms and felt proud to have had a share in it. Too bad that the once-glittering Valley with its palaces, gardens, cities, and temples had been laid waste, but such was war.

Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Encourage the genius in everyone you meet.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.