Genius Quotes · Page 77

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

— Michel de Montaigne

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

— Lukas Foss

“Nothing is more creative...nor destructive...than a brilliant mind wiht a purpose”

— Dan Brown

“If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.

— Amy Landecker

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

— Criss Jami

Never admire someone so much that you ignore the genius in you.

— Sajan Nair

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

— Jacques Barzun

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death…

— Salvador Dali

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to…

— Lytton Strachey

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready…

— Cesare Lombroso

“When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make…

— Orson Scott Card

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style…

— Chilly Gonzales

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence…

— Douglas Adams

I don't feel like there's any artists in the game that have been as creative as Missy Elliott. I feel like she's…

— Trina

“There is no proof, but they all sense it. They are all geniuses that appear once in a decade. The only ones…

— Tadatoshi Fujimaki

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always…

— Bruce Willis

With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this…

— P. J. Soles

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent…

— Henry David Thoreau

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single…

— Margaret Halsey

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it…

— Eric Weiner

The other financial genius, John McCain, said the fundamentals of our economy are strong, and then yesterday he wanted to fire the…

— Bill Maher

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

— Jubal

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

— Walter Lippmann

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

— Woody Guthrie

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

— Martellus Bennett

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

— Tallulah Bankhead

“When the talent is torrential, the harvest is inevitable.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

— Abraham Lincoln

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

— Mo Rocca

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

— Pindar

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

— Peter Thiel

“The line between creative and crazy is mighty thin.”

— T.C. Slonaker

The H-1B visa is called the 'genius visa' for a reason.

— Michio Kaku

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

— Alexander Hamilton