Genius Quotes

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Genius is independent of situation.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.