Genius Quotes - Page 5

Genius is of no country.

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Only a genius can play a fool.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.