Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.
With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.
Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'
Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
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.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question...
