Genius Quotes

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I think Pans Labyrinth is genius. — Joe Dante
A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But… — Jenny Offill
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both… — Frank X. Barron
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be… — Suzy Kassem
The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of… — Eugene Schwartz
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. — Dahlia Lithwick
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius. — Sam Kean
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him… — James Gleick
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental… — Lytton Strachey
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one… — Gustave Eiffel
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political… — Albert Schweitzer
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all… — Eric Hoffer
The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid. — Kato Kaelin
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking… — Henry David Thoreau
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed… — Lytton Strachey
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic… — Michael York
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson
Common sense is genius in homespun. — Alfred North Whitehead
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea… — Giorgio Vasari
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. — Stanley Tucci
Every man is a potential genius until he does something. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in… — Lytton Strachey
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. — Isaac Stern
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. — Alexander H. Stephens

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