Genius Quotes · Page 94

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them,…

— John Stuart Mill

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego.…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight…

— Criss Jami

Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the…

— Marco van Basten

“The,genius,is,not,greater, Than,its,radius, Which,defines,its,genius. The,tower,is,not,greater, Than,its,altitude, Which,defines,its,solitude.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

— Cory Booker

[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an…

— Lee Clow

I feel a part of it, watching my husband the genius be a genius. So when he does something annoying, I can…

— Monica Horan

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

“It is said that one should keep one's allies within view, and one's enemies within reach. A valid statement. One must be…

— Timothy Zahn

“I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent…

— Spider Robinson

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting…

— David Edelstein

“Consult the genius of the place in all; That tells the waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th' ambitious hill…

— Alexander Pope

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries ,…

— Joel Bakan

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great…

— Ralph Bunche

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping…

— Anthony Jeselnik

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in…

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

— Martin Amis

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

— Winston Churchill

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there's a tendency to anoint a genius…

— Larry Gagosian

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not…

— William Carlos Williams

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of…

— Eric Weiner

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius: Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only…

— R. N. Prasher

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -…

— Victor Hugo

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

— Jose Rizal

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just…

— Garfield Sobers

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human…

— James Russell Lowell

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I…

— Sarah Shahi

“...genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like…

— José Rizal

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for…

— Samuel Johnson

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes…

— William Benton Clulow

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

— William Blake

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a…

— Anonymous