Genius Quotes

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

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.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

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.

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.

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.