Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. — Cesare Lombroso
Short Geniuses Quotes
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex — Albert Einstein
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. — W. H. Murray
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
Adversity is the midwife of genius — Napoleon Bonaparte
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
True Genius Quotes
I’m very proud of Seungri. I worked over a year for my album, but one day YG told Seungri to make an album and he made one in just 2 weeks. Ah, maybe 3 weeks. He’s a true genius. I’m jealous of his propulsion. — G-Dragon
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose. — George Berkeley
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. — Mary Russell Mitford
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling
Who knows? He [Elon Musk] is a weird guy… He is a true genius and look at the world fundamentally differently than most people do. — Charles Hoskinson
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning. — Phil Woods
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier
There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. — Alex Jones
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Victor Hugo
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires. — Mirabeau B. Lamar
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley
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