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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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.

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.