Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

Madness in method, that's genius

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.