339 quotes found
“Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.”
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.”
“Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!”
“Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step w...”
“I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd, I mixed with my fellow men, speaking my thought out loud! And they gaped back at me, withou...”
“Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.”
“Genius, as we tend to talk about it today, is some sort of mysterious and combustible substance that burns brightly and burns out. It's the strange gift of poets and pop stars that allows them to p...”
“Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is c...”
“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”
“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to...”
“There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.”
“A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into tactics. He can drop tactics for strategy without anyone or an...”
“Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that ...”
“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”
“I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood...”
“A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.”
“I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.”
“Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.”
“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”
“The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.”
