339 quotes found
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
“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 t...”
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementar...”
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
“If it sounds good, it is good.”
“Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control”
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.”
“There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.”
“There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.”
“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
“Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work”
“Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
“This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.”
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a ...”
