Quotes and Sayings about Genius

Since when was genius found respectable?

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Genius is patience.

'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Everything was believed except the truth.

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

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

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

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

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

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

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

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.

Do or do not. There is no try.

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

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

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.

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

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

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

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