Genius Quotes

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A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning… — Otto Weininger
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the… — Otto Weininger
You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the… — Jerry Seinfeld
What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects… — Giorgio Moroder
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day — Marc Andreessen
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you… — Joe Meno
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Don't be jealous of my genius. — Derek Landy
I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying. — Tyler The Creator
Taste is the feminine of genius. — Lord Edward FitzGerald
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities. — Maria Montessori
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you… — Herman Wouk
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great… — Cesare Lombroso
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses — Cesare Lombroso
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso
The belly is the giver of genius. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility… — Gabor Szabo
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it… — Unknown Author
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young… — John Ruskin
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance. — Unknown Author
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of… — Mark Twain

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