Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Even genius is tied to profit.

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

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

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

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

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.

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

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

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

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

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

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.