Quotes and Sayings about Genius

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

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

Fish

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

William Saroyan

Playing

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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Children & Childhood Fairytales

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

Talent

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

Solitude & Loneliness

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

Small Things Daily Routine

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Browning

Soul Valentine's Day

Everything was believed except the truth.

Alexandre Dumas

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Thinking Problems Innovation

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Bernard Williams

Summer Night June

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intelligence Solitude & Loneliness Eagles

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley

Beauty

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Do or do not. There is no try.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Taking action

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Art

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

Spring Change Magic

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

Hope

Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

Motivation Fish

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.

William Saroyan

War Solitude & Loneliness

Not everything has to make sense. It's totally fine when it's fun.

Meaning Playing

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