Genius Quotes

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

She was a genius, my mother.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.