Genius Quotes · Page 49

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

— Anonymous

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

— Anonymous

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

— Myles Munroe

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

It is the essence of a genius to make use of the simplest idea.

— Unkown

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

— Lydia M. Child

If I studied the way I do during finals week all year long, I would be a freaking genius.

— Anonymous

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

— Albert Pike

“The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.”

— Anonymous

“The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race…

— Baha'i International Community

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

— Guy de Maupassant

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius'…

— Franny Billingsley

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood…

— Edmund Burke

“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.”

— Phil Dourado

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional…

— Albert Pike

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;…

— Samuel Johnson

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,…

— Jill Scott

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…

— George Washington

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have…

— Gary Numan

Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird…

— Bob Kane

I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under…

— Kellan Lutz

“Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser.”

— Joss Stirling

I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story.

— Alexander Armstrong

I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.

— Alexander Skarsgard

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

— Henry David Thoreau

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

— Edmund Spenser

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

— Horace

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

— Mark Twain

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

— Anonymous

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

— Joseph de Maistre

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

— Albert Einstein

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

— Diana Wynne Jones

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius.

— Warren Spahn