Genius Quotes - Page 21

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.