Genius Quotes

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is of no country.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

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.