GENIUS QUOTES
“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher
“I’m a misunderstood genius.”
“What’s misunderstood?”
“Nobody thinks I’m a genius.”
― Bill Watterson
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.”
― Joyce Cary
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
― Deepak Chopra
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
― Claude Monet
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
― Louisa May Alcott
“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”
― William Blake
“Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.”
― Idowu Koyenikan
“I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
― Albert Camus
“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.”
― Eoin Colfer
“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
― Criss Jami
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
― Immanuel Kant
“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
― Naguib Mahfouz
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
― Woody Guthrie
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
― Joyce Cary
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Lewis Carroll
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
― Baruch de Spinoza
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
― Eoin Colfer
“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
― Anthony Horowitz
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
― Erich Segal
“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.”
― Criss Jami
“I am incapable of mediocrity.”
― Serge Gainsbourg
“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. ”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
― Bruce Feirstein
“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll
“A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
― Robert Fanney
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