Quotes About Genius

What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book [A Tale of a Tub].

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.

La testarudez es el puente gracias al cual los idiotas pasan a la Historia transformados en héroes, en símbolos o en genios.

Un hombre que se enamora es siempre un imbécil elevado al cubo. Cuando se tratra de un individuo genial, ese individuo escribe La Divina Comedia (caso Dante Alighieri) y le amarga la vida para siempre a la humanidad. Y, por el contrario, cuando se trata de un hombre vulgar, ese hombre hace oposiciones a Hacienda, se casa en la Parroquia (caso Juan Sánchez) y se amarga la vida para siempre a sí mismo.