Genius Quotes - Page 7

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.