Genius Quotes - Page 45

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.