Genius Quotes · Page 66

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Lewis Carroll

“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...”

— John Geddes

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

— Douglas Booth

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?”

— Steven Moffat

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

— George W. Bush

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

— Aleister Crowley

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

— Louisa May Alcott

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence…

— Eric Weiner

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

— Charles Darwin

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

— David R. Hawkins

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

— Joe Satriani

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

— Mark Victor Hansen

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all…

— Donald Miller

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast…

— Allan Bloom

“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except…

— Benjamin Blech

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of…

— E. M. Forster

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,…

— Anonymous

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,…

— Steven Levy

Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky,…

— Richard Ford

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

— Jean Houston

“Talent is intelligent, brilliance is clever, genius is wise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

— Joe E. Lewis

Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side

— Donald Petersen

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Wow 2 days on this site and I have very little IQ nice.

— Meh

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

“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

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

— Tony Taccone

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Michel Hazanavicius