Geniuses Quotes

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.