Genius Quotes

There is no off position on the genius switch.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

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.

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.

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.