Genius Quotes - Page 6

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I’m doing so well with it, I know I’m actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

A.D. Aliwat

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent,” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Sarah Vowell

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Otto Weininger

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

Wouter Van Gastel

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Brian Spellman

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Malcolm Bradbury

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

Mike Judge

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Erich Segal

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle

Empathy needs no genius.

Toba Beta

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

Mary MacLane

Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

Toba Beta

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

When you plan ahead, shit never goes wrong, just in different directions. - Welliver.

James Cox

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

Jim Manzi

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Anthony Marais

Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.

Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

Kate Karyus Quinn

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

Stanley Victor Paskavich

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

Idowu Koyenikan

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Equality has no place for genius.

Allen Bloom

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

Orson Scott Card

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius - a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. "A genius working alone," he says, "is invariably ignored as a lunatic."The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find; a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. "A person like this working alone," says Slazinger, "can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shaped should be."The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. "He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting," says Slazinger. "Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

William H. Gass

Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions.

Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Lawrence Durrell

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.("The Phantom Model")

Hume Nisbet

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Criss Jami

How somebody is different?? Not different but genius?? (Find the answer, that's my quiz for you... No, jokers it's to easy with jokers)

Deyth Banger

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

Heather Brewer

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

Orson Scott Card

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

William Blake

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

Andrew Bernstein

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Elbert Hubbard

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Steve Jobs

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

Orson Scott Card

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mrs. Beckwith turning over her sketches under the lamp. Then, being tired, her mind still rising and falling with the sea, the taste and smell that places have after long absence possessing her, the candles wavering in her eyes, she had lost herself and gone under. It was a wonderful night, starlit; the waves sounded as they went upstairs; the moon surprised them, enormous, pale, as they passed the staircase window. She had slept at once.

Virginia Woolf

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.

George Pólya

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

Adele Devine

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Criss Jami

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a part of the island. The swarthiness of my face hidden behind the clay and charcoal. I leave behind England, it's not important anymore, our island is all that matters. The rhythm of the hunt, the sun, beats deep in my blood. The littl'uns play, eat, and sleep, there good for nothing and just take up precious space on my island.I couldn't have known a ship would pass at the exact moment my hunters left the fire. We needed the meat. Everything was perfect, the pigs on the mountain, the hunters and our spears, we had to go then. The hunt was perfect, the gouts and gouts of blood, the pigs death screams. But that stupid boat went by, and destroyed my trophy.Then Simon, stupid little Simon, gives the fat belligerent Fatty a piece of meat. He doesn't deserve it, the fat, ass-mar infected, fatty. The know-it-all that says he could do better, he wouldn't he'd do the exact same thing in my shoes. Damn him, damn them all! They should have just taken the meat. Then Ralph stands there and tells me I'm too malevolent. I even apologized. He doesn't deserve to be chief, he's weak. He wouldn't do it, he wouldn't kill. There's power behind the spear, impalpable to people like Ralph. We dominate those pigs. Now that we have found the way to kill the pigs, we don't even need to be rescued. It doesn't matter that there was no fire to signal the ship, because we needed the men for the hunt, and I don't regret it anymore because now we have meat.

William Golding

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

Susan Bell

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

John Geddes

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

Orson Scott Card

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Orson Scott Card

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

Ogwo David Emenike

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.

David Eagleman

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