Genius Quotes

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

~ Harvey Keitel

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

~ Philip Sidney

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

~ Nikki Reed

Genius is eternal patience.

~ Michelangelo

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

~ Nancy Gibbs

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

~ Robert Fripp

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

~ Clive Bell

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

~ Albert Einstein

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

~ Aristotle

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

~ James Joyce

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

~ Paul Cézanne

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

~ Jonathan Swift

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

~ Charles Bukowski

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

~ E. B. White

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

~ Josh Billings

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

~ Ezra Pound

Genius is initiative on fire.

~ Holbrook Jackson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

~ Alexander Pope

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

~ John Ciardi

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

~ James Whistler

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

~ Joshua Prince-Ramus

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

~ J. Reuben Clark

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

~ Sloane Crosley

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

~ Hannah More

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

~ Adam Mansbach

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

~ Max Weber

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

~ Aisha Tyler

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

~ W. H. Murray

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

~ Madame De Stael

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

~ Walt Whitman

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

~ Darlene Love

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

~ Christopher Morley

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~ E. F. Schumacher

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

~ John Stuart Mill