Genius Quotes

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

~ Andrew Bernstein

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

~ William Blake

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

~ Orson Scott Card

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius.pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

~ Heather Brewer

How somebody is different?? Not different but genius?? (Find the answer, that's my quiz for you... No, jokers it's to easy with jokers)

~ Deyth Banger

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

~ Criss Jami

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.(The Phantom Model)

~ Hume Nisbet

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

~ Lawrence Durrell

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

~ William H. Gass

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

~ Orson Scott Card

Equality has no place for genius.

~ Allen Bloom

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

One of her favorite lines was, The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

~ Kate Karyus Quinn

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

~ Jim Manzi

When you plan ahead, shit never goes wrong, just in different directions. - Welliver.

~ James Cox

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

~ Toba Beta

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

~ Mary Maclane

Empathy needs no genius.

~ Toba Beta

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

~ Aristotle

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

~ Erich Segal

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

~ Mike Judge

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

~ Brian Spellman

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

~ Malcolm Bradbury

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

~ Roman Payne

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

~ Otto Weininger

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent,” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

~ Sarah Vowell

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The curiousity and to be interested in something makes you genius.(Robin Sharma said this once, in other words which will mean that to be genius or clever you must be curious to learn!)

~ Deyth Banger

When the brain’s potential is fully unleashed, there can be few if any limitations. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t up-to-date with the latest scientific findings on the brain and is exhibiting their ignorance. For the brain’s potential is the human potential…

~ James Morcan

The latest scientific studies have revealed extraordinary findings. The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.

~ James Morcan

You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius.

~ Debasish Mridha

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

~ Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

~ Louisa May Alcott