Genius Quotes - page 7

To see things in the seed is genius. (Laozi)
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It takes a genius to whine appealingly. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. View quote
Fulton J. Sheen
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. View quote
Josh Billings
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is-and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. View quote
Harlan Coben
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you. View quote
Bill Cosby
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. View quote
Jacques Pepin
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. (Alfred Binet)
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius. View quote
Connie Brockway
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. View quote
Robert Henri
I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers. View quote
Herman E. Daly
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. View quote
Isaac Stern
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. View quote
Joe Theismann
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. View quote
Ken Burns
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. View quote
Mary MacLane
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. View quote
Mary Todd Lincoln
Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. (Mel Torme)
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does. View quote
Peter Fonda
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level - man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology. View quote
Rollo May