Genius Quotes - page 4

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. (Max Beerbohm)
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. View quote
Pablo Picasso
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. View quote
Federico Fellini
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. (Albert Einstein)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. View quote
Albert Einstein
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots. View quote
Tom Perrotta
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
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 that they subsequently express with their hands. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. View quote
Michael Dell
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. View quote
Sid Caesar
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. (Kathleen Winsor)
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. View quote
Horace Mann
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. View quote
John Denham