Genius Quotes - Page 44

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side

Don't be jealous of my genius.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.