Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.
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.
The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.
Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129
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 they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the...
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
