Top 1200 Misunderstood Genius Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

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

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

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

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

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

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

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

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.

On 'Sweet Genius,' you have to be tough with the chefs, but my goal was to guide them and choose the genius who will win $10,000 - not a bad sum at all for one day's work.

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

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

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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

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

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

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

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

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.

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

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

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

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

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

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

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

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

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

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.