Genius Quotes - Page 23

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Genius is infinite painstaking.

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.