Quotes About Genius

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

Henri? He's just the most famous, most creative, most amazing colorist in the universe, that's all!

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure. Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure.

Bach, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Dostoievski ÅŸi Nietzsche sunt singurul argument împotriva monoteismului.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there.

S? ai geniu înseamn? s? poÈ›i digera influenÈ›ele pân? le faci pierdut? urma.

CompatrioÅ£ii mei au geniul superlativului. ÎÅ£i trântesc un compliment de pe urma c?ruia nu-Å£i mai revii...

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

If the Jews have not inflicted Him upon us, they nevertheless bear the responsibility of having conceived Him. That is a flaw in their genius. They could have done better.

He who chooses time is engulfed by it and buries his genius therein.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

t is idle to expect an ordinary man born in the purple to have greater genius than an extraordinary man born out of the purple; to expect a man whose place has always been fixed to have a better judgment than one who has lived by his judgment; to expect a man whose career will be the same whether he is discreet or whether he is indiscreet to have the nice discretion of one who has risen by his wisdom, who will fall if he ceases to be wise.

There is nothing in the life before us comparable in interest to the tragic, gradual cracking of the great mind; the overtasking of the great capital, and the ensuing failure; the spectacle of heaving genius breaking in the contact with misfortune.

That a sublime genius like the divine Plato could have been absolutely convinced of the reality of the divine idea shows us how contagious, how omnipotent, is the tradition of the religious mania even on the greatest minds.

Patient genius is constantly detecting order in apparent chaos ... and when this happens, by all means rearrange your map of the universe accordingly. But do not argue that chaos is therefore non-existent.

We know by experience that a nation may suddenly blaze out into a splendor of productive genius, of which its previous history gave but faint promise, and of which its subsequent history shows but little trace.

The truth is that, to every genius there is a characteristic weakness, a defect to which it naturally leans, and into which, in those inevitable moments when inspiration flags, it is apt to subside.

It seems at first sight strange that any man of genius should have patiently submitted to rules which, from the point of view of art, were perfectly arbitrary.

Împ?r?it? deopotriv?, for?a omeneasc? produce pro?ti sau mediocritate pretudindeni; inegal? îns?, d? na?tere acestor ciud??enii c?rora li se d? numele de "geniu" ?i care, dac? ar putea fi v?zute cu ochii, ar p?rea ni?te diformit??i.