Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

The belly is the giver of genius.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.