Top 1200 True Genius Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

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

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

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.

Iniesta is a true football genius, and we should all give thanks not only for what he has done but what he's continuing to do.

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

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.

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

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

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

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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

The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

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

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

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

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

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

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

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

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.

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.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

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

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

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.

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.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

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

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

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

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

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

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

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

Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of one’s life.

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

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

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.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

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

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

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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

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

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

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

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

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

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

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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