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.

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.

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.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that...

At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history...

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

This century will be called Darwin’s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write...

There’s a genius in everyone. It’s either asleep or awake

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.)[Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a statue of Buffon placed at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris.]

That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of...

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with...

Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner...

I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can...

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

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.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede – not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can’t count...

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it’s self is stupidity.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

It’s always darkest before you’re blinded by the light

On, I don’t think I’m a genius!’ cried Josie, growing calm and sober as she listened to the melodious voice and looked into the expressive face that filled her with confidence, so strong, sincere and...

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Now that I’m on Broadway, it’s like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, ‘Venus in Fur’; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind...

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I think I just blew my own mind.

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many...

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being...

Il genio è un africano che vede in sogno la neve.

Doesn’t matter. He will get better. He will finish the season at .300-something. Ichiro is a genius.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one...

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.