Genius Quotes · Page 49

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

— Dick Cavett

Often times, it's the missteps that make it brilliant

— Melody Minagar

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

— Amelia Barr

“Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.”

— Wazim Shaw

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Dont be too busy admiring someone else's genius to cultivate your own genius.

— Anonymous

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who…

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my…

— Ray Charles

“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.”

— Compton Mackenzie

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must…

— John Henry Newman

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political…

— Richard J. Needham

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

— Wendell Berry

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and…

— Debi Mazar

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we…

— Criss Jami

Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much…

— Raymond Buckland

When [Vladimir] Putin goes out and tells everybody - and you talk about a relationship, but he says Donald Trump is going…

— Donald Trump

I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to…

— Beth Grant

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our…

— Francois Arago

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts…

— Russell Crowe

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“As Einstein remarked, ‘My pencil and I are more clever than I.”

— Anonymous

I know am not perfect, but I long to always do the right thing and be genius.

— Blaze Olamiday

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

— Robert A. Heinlein

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

— Anonymous

“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

— Anonymous

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

— Lev Vygotsky

“It is the masterpiece of your enemies to make you doubt your genius.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

— Criss Jami

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

— Alan Cohen

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

— Joel Achenbach

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

— Joseph Smith, Jr

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

— Jimmy Page