Genius Quotes - Page 2

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

There's a genius in all of us.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Talent works, genius creates.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.