Genius Quotes

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Genius, when young, is divine.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.