Top 1200 Genius And Madness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

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

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

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.

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

Madness is no madness when shared.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Love is a lot of magic and madness followed by marriage. These are the three M's for me. I think these three keep life intact. I am a very filmi person and would like the magic and the madness to remain in my marriage forever.

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

I feel a part of it, watching my husband the genius be a genius. So when he does something annoying, I can forgive him much more easily.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

Madness breeds madness.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.