Genius Quotes - Page 6

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

I can't take his genius any more.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.