Geniuses Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

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.

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

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

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

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 particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

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

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

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.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

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

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

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.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

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

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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.