Quotes of: True-genius Keyword

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Michael R. LeGault

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Sid Caesar

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.

George Grosz

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.

Wolfgang Puck

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Nancy Gibbs

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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.

Charles Babbage

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Godwin

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Edmund Wilson

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question...

Christopher Dutton

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Criss Jami

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

Chris Lilley

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour.

Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

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

Jean Anouilh

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Eugene Delacroix

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Golan Levin

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel