Genius Quotes · Page 65

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

— Ayn Rand

“I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity.”

— Meb Bryant

You're a dreamer or a failure until you hit that big success. Then, youre a genius.

— Scooter Braun

“True genius does not fulfill expectations. True genius shatters it.”

— Paula Abdul

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

— Og Mandino

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

— Arlene Croce

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

— Marianne Moore

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't…

— Christopher Priest

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

— Gillian Anderson

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and…

— Abraham Lincoln

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their…

— Hannah Gadsby

Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no…

— Austin Osman Spare

I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's…

— Min

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All…

— Benjamin Haydon

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

— Wendell Berry

I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray…

— Mike Royer

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's…

— John Sculley

Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on…

— Declan Lynch

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The most recent writers on genius, creativity’s greatest manifestation, agree that it can appear at any point in the life cycle, not…

— Lois W. Banner

I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the…

— Gayl Jones

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.”

— Susan Banfield

Genius is ninty-nine percent madness and one percent acumen.

— Steve Fowler

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

— Adam Savage

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

— George Farquhar

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

— Otto Weininger

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

— Seb Kirby

“Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

— Lois Lowry

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

— David Brooks

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

— Virginia Woolf

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

— Francis Bacon