Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal eccentricities, but they're not at a disabling level.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.

Valentino Garavani is never really shown himself as anything other than this gracious diplomat of the dolce vita. That's his preferred look. But he's a temperamental genius - a man of cyclone force, passion, and perfectionist impulses who has very little tolerance for things that aren't exactly as he wants them to be.

Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.