Genius Quotes - page 3

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. (Samuel Johnson)
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
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 men as lunatics. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. View quote
Joseph Addison
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. View quote
Joseph Addison
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. View quote
William Saroyan
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. (Oliver Goldsmith)
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. View quote
Margaret Fuller
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. View quote
Albert Pike
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. View quote
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. View quote
William Blake
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. View quote
Denis Diderot
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. (Denis Diderot)
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. View quote
Denis Diderot
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. View quote
Denis Diderot
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. View quote
Max Beerbohm