Top 1200 Insanity And Genius Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

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

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

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.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

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.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

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

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

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

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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

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

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

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

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

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

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

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

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.