genius quotes

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius, when young, is divine.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

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.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Genius is patience.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.