Genius Quotes · Page 76

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone.”

— Haruki Murakami

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

— Bette Greene

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.

— Tony Taccone

“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”

— Sara Sheridan

I think Mike Nichols is brilliant, but I think Jerry Robbins was a genius.

— Rita Moreno

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

— Katherine Waterston

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

— Juliette Drouet

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details…

— Nick Kroll

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and…

— William Hazlitt

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds.…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson… have taught man to look within himself to…

— Ernest Holmes

“She was a genius on paper. But not a team player. She was quick to loathe others. But not against loving. She…

— Krista Ritchie

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a…

— John Adams

What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think…

— Elizabeth Taylor

There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.…

— Kathe Kollwitz

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory…

— Ludwig von Mises

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly,…

— Franz Grillparzer

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Being a genius doesn’t make you smart, happy, or successful. In fact, sometimes the opposite. Studies have shown that people with genius-level…

— Nelson DeMille

In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this…

— Danzy Senna

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

— Clarence Darrow

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

— Michel Hazanavicius

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

— Stendhal

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

— Michio Kaku

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

— Voltaire

Imagination and creativity are the qualities of genius.

— Tasneem Hameed

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

— Anonymous

“Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.”

— Amit Kalantri

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

— Frederic Henry Hedge

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

— Arthur Koestler

“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.”

— Mary Renault

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

— Margaret Fuller

I like art that's simple but feels kind of genius - like David Shrigley or David Hockney.

— Lolly Adefope