Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is Abstract Expressionism," they could go, "Well, he failed miserably," or, "Fantastic, this is a new genius!" But in art history, I don't see any of the artists I like spewing bullshit. I don't see anyone recording it or pronouncing what they were doing.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Fashion wears many faces; it has the urge to belong to a group - to charm - but  also the urge to be exclusive and snobbish to carve out individuality. That is the genius of fashion! Fashion is what time looks like, and it's up to us all to shape what our own time looks like. Fashion is a collaborative art form in this way... We all paint the picture.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

For a few days I tweeted with a certain Pippa Middleton, and I really thought it was the Pippa Middleton. Then I discovered it was a fake. But the person who had thought up the concept was nice. It was kind of genius in its own way.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.