Genius Quotes

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.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

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.

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.