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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It’s always been that way.

I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought ‘Genius.’ Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on,...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important...

Genius is full of trash.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

[On Chopin’s Preludes:]”His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night...

Love is a combination of understanding and misunderstanding. I’m understanding of your flaws, and I’m misunderstanding why you don’t try to be perfect, like I am.

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.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

I’ll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I’ll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you...

Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we...

Despite of the growing industry in technology and the sophistication of cellular phones to tabs and touch screens, the level of human brain from the genius to dumb can never be compared to computers”.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the...

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of...

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he...

Jimi’s fan base is one thing only it’s about his genius as guitarist, musician and performer. All the work needed to solidify the fan base was accomplished in 1970 when he was alive, creating, and...

In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground.

We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into...

In my dreams,” said Ender, “I’m never sure whether I’m really me.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that’s normal have a touch or retardation?

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.

Clive Barker is just genius, and he’s incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.

With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven.

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.