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?

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.

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.

Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton — these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led...

There is no off position on the genius button.

If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein...

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should...

You’re a Genius all the time

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given...

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

[…] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to use the inspired words of a television reporter[…].

I didn’t know how you’d get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique...

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.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given dayand the best at murder are those who preach against itand the best at hate are...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf...

Carlyle’s genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region...

Genius – the pursuit of madness.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers...

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

One man’s insanity is another man’s genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.

There is no any secret to being a genius, all you have to do is be yourself.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

En los exámenes los estúpidos preguntan cosas que los sabios no pueden responder

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th’ election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th’ occurents, more and less,Which have solicited – the rest is...

Genius – To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But...

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that...

David Fincher is a genius.

I need camouflage that works in such a way that when I wear it, you disappear.