Genius Quotes

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

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

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.