Genius Quotes

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.

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.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is of no country.