Genius Quotes

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Genius is initiative on fire.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.