You don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

As a child i was nothing short of a genius, as a man i got used to stupidity.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

The lucky person passes for a genius

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren’t.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast...

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the...

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I’ve seen genius shining off the guy.

Thor once took an IQ test, and he was scoring so high that the referees took away his ability to shoot three pointers.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud...

Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

A man’s genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Genius is sorrow’s child.

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination....

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison, I brought up the question of Ingersoll. I asked this great genius what he thought of him, and he replied, ‘He was grand.’...

I’m sort of like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine or through devolving lower into the world. This is how some people with...

Equality has no place for genius.

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Snuggling is an art. And I’m no Rembrandt—I’m a cat. I am pure cuddling genius.

Children inherit their parents’ madness.

No, I don’t admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius’s activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak,...

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Just because they didn’t know they were killing human beings doesn’t mean they weren’t killing human beings.

Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark...

To wander is to be alive.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

The unrecognized genius-that’s one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.