Genius Quotes · Page 47

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

— Daveed Diggs

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

— Bill Watterson

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

— Alan Perlis

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

— Simon Heffer

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,…

— Amy Vanderbilt

Mr Peabody is a very smart character, a genius, so accomplished in many ways. And yet he's decided that he needed to…

— Rob Minkoff

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

— Brian Tracy

“I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it.…

— Orson Scott Card

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater…

— Robin Morgan

At first I thought that I was extremely intelligent and everybody around me was only very average. But now I know that…

— Anonymous

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to…

— Giorgio Moroder

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

— William Saroyan

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts.…

— Ari Graynor

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in…

— Anthony Bourdain

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

“A leader is responsible for those under his authority. That is the first rule of command. He is responsible for their safety,…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like…

— Richard Avedon

From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is…

— Thomas Armstrong

Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that…

— Fran Lebowitz

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

— Thomas A. Edison

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

— Gene Wilder

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

— Robert Fanney

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

— Lydia M. Child

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

— Denis Diderot

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

— Ted McGinley

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,

— Mirabeau B. Lamar

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

— Charles Peguy

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

— Ovid

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

— Guillermo del Toro

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

— Bonnie Bassler

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

— Stanislaw Lem

“It takes a genius to make it simple.” Think of Picasso. He”

— Ray Dalio