Genius Quotes

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 genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.