Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

A genius is the one most like himself.

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

A good title is a work of a genius!

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

All genuine progress results from finding new facts

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it’s like, “Hey, I’ve got a cup in case we need another cup.” “Dude, you’re a genius!”

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.