Genius Quotes

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

There's a genius in all of us.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

A genius is the one most like himself.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

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

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

Talent works, genius creates.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.