339 quotes found
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.”
“you never know your true genius untill you do what you love”
“Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.”
“A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher com...”
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
“because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
“Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.”
“Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.”
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
“People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``Why has nobody discovered me?'' In school, didn't they see that I'm cleverer than anybody in this ...”
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ”
“Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
“The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.”
“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certaint...”
“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”
