Genius Quotes - Page 22

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Without passion, there is no genius.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Everyone is born a genius.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.