Genius Quotes - Page 4

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.