Quotes about Genius, page 3

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex, it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Quote by Albert Einstein about genius

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about genius

Genius to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about genius

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about genius

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Quote by Walt Disney about genius

To be a genius means to have endless patience.

Quote by Michelangelo Buonarroti about genius

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

Quote by Jean Anouilh about genius

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Quote by George Sand about genius

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Quote by Edward Fitzgerald about genius

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about genius

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Quote by Robert Graves about genius

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Quote by Guy de Maupassant about genius

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Quote by Antonin Artaud about genius

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Quote by Stendhal about genius

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about genius

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Quote by Louis Aragon about genius

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Quote by Arthur Rimbaud about genius

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about genius

No matter how many ethnic groups are blended in the pot of a geographical place, in time a specific human type of that place emerges. The "genius loci" is stronger than race.

Quote by Vasile Andru about genius

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about genius