Quotes on Genius

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.