Genius Quotes

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

~ Albert Camus

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.

~ Kevin Leman

Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a woman’s shape to see that she wasn’t intended for much mental or physical work.

~ Jacky Fleming

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

~ Oscar Wilde

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

~ Criss Jami

Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What was about to crush us suddenly parts before us and we shoot forward with the sudden vitality of life, fueled by the living imagination needed to survive.

~ Michael Meade

Fate and destiny are close woven within us and near them can be found the true genius of our lives.

~ Michael Meade

The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harmonic elements to a universe of high vibrational sensory. And our beloved Bro. Maurice David knew it's undeniable creative power, from within.

~ T.f. Hodge

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

~ Phil Dourado

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

~ Claude Monet

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

~ Shaun Jeffrey

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.

~ Jessica Lave

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

~ Truman Capote

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

~ Erol Ozan

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

~ نجيب محفوظ

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

~ Abigail Adams

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

~ Criss Jami

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

~ Criss Jami

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

~ Criss Jami

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

~ James Morcan

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

~ Anthony Horowitz

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

~ Michael R. Legault

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

~ Diane Setterfield

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

~ Criss Jami

It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and that it's precisely measurable. My lowest scores probably reflect less than my maximum effort, and my highest scores probably grant me some extra points due to crazily high levels of diligence plus vast experience with these tests. It doesn't really matter unless we want to turn IQ testing into a reality show sport.

~ Rick Rosner

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.

~ Bruce Charlton

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

~ Bert Mccoy

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Higher intelligence is not necessarily something you’re born with or genetically predisposed toward. In fact, most instances of above-the-ordinary intelligences are usually acquired thru superior learning techniques ... Reading about the greatest minds in history, including recent history, more often than not reveals the individuals concerned (or people close to them) employed specific learning methods.

~ James Morcan

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

~ Christopher Langan

Being smart means you learned it well, being stupid means you haven't learned it yet, but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you.

~ Sneha Abraham

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

~ David Brier

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort, the will, the work, which in the intelligence as sway over the energy capable of making it fully efficacious. It is uniquely the desire, that is, the desire for beauty. This desire, given a certain degree of intensity and purity, is the same thing as genius. At all levels it is the same thing as attention. If this were understood, the whole conception of teaching would be quite other than it is. First, one would realize that the intelligence functions only in joy. Intelligence is perhaps even the only one of our faculties to which joy is indispensible. The absence of joy asphyxiates it.

~ Simone Weil

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

~ Neal Stephenson