Genius Quotes - Page 12

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The reality is Donald Trump's a genius.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.