Genius Quotes

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Only a genius can play a fool.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.