Genius Quotes

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Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not. — Bobby Fischer
I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which… — Bobby Fischer
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. — Louis Aragon
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
Genius Borrows nobly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. — Albert Einstein
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. — Simon Cowell
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses… — Marc Maron
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art. — James Franco
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a… — Jim Gaffigan
For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention… — Jonny Lee Miller
Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit. — Mike Caro
Only a genius can play a fool. — Michael Rapaport
I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go back to and… — Kelly Macdonald
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the… — Bruce Lee
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated… — Richard Attenborough
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius! — Gene Wilder
To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry. — Julie Harris
In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius. — Mia Michaels
Even a genius has his questions. — Tupac Shakur

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