Genius Quotes

Since when was genius found respectable?

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.