Quotes on Genius

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Passion is the genius of genius.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.