Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Salvador Dali

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Joseph J. Ellis

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Joseph Joubert

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is its own end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is intellect constructive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Lenny Kravitz

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius...

Ted McGinley

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius Borrows nobly.

Marc Chagall

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Rufus Wainwright

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Walt Disney

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Russell Simmons

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

Sacha Guitry

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Tony Buzan

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Steven Erikson

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Steve Martin

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Thomas Wolfe

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Richard Donner

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Steve Wozniak

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Steven Levy

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Robert Browning

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Richard Aldington

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.