Genius Quotes - Page 16

Genius is the error in the system.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it’s like, “Hey, I’ve got a cup in case we need another cup.” “Dude, you’re a genius!”

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses have the remarkable abilities that the savant shows, but they do not have a disability. So, by definition, a savant includes someone with a disability, and a prodigy or genius are people who have these remarkable skills but they do not have a disability.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.