Genius Quotes · Page 68

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

— Denis Diderot

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

— Charles Bukowski

Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.

— Rick Wilson

I think David Hewlett is a comedic genius. I think he's great.

— Brian J. Smith

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

— Voltaire

F confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

— Larry Leissner

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough…

— Andre Aciman

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables…

— Robert Harris

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for…

— Paula Poundstone

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very…

— Robert Webb

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

— Emil Zatopek

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check…

— Jane Austen

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when…

— Eric Weiner

“All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

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

“Nikola Telsa, an electrical engineer and genius in his own time, once suggested that when science begins the exploration of the non-physical…

— Natalie Nolan

If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic…

— Ridley Scott

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

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond…

— Alexander Pope

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are…

— Mark Twain

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

— Margaret Mitchell

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

— Iris Murdoch

The genius store called, they're runnnig out of you.

— Stella

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

— Ninette de Valois

“Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.”

— Doris P. Johnson

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

— Robert Towne

I've always wanted to work with De Zerbi, and I think he is a genius in his vision of football.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

— Diane Setterfield

Everybody is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

— Anonymous

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

— Richard M. Nixon

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

— Aristotle

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

— Wilferd Peterson