Genius Quotes - Page 14

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Genius is initiative on fire.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

There is nothing new in art except talent.