Genius Quotes · Page 78

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Meh

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Bette Greene

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Margaret Fuller

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

— Mary Renault

“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

— Margaret Fuller

For all his tactical genius Guardiola is also a manager who can be patient and loyal, who backs players to come out…

— Eniola Aluko

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius…'' ''Give a girl the right shoes and she will conquer the world

— Marilyn Monroe

At the same time the players around me almost make it an automatism to score goals. We have so much quality and…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around…

— David Axelrod

Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception…

— Samuel Johnson

It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.…

— Donald Miller

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother…

— Margaret Fuller

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame…

— Luanne Rice

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who…

— Brennan Manning

Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching…

— Jason 'J' Brown

“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary…

— Joseph O'Connor

Why can't I just be one of those really smart people who pass everything with no effort...

— Anonymous

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

— Lolly Adefope

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

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Michio Kaku

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Anonymous

Imagination and creativity are the qualities of genius.

— Tasneem Hameed

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

— Voltaire

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Aleister Crowley

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Louisa May Alcott