Quotes tagged ‘Genius’

“I believe in Harlem. You know, my Harlem is saturated with jazz and good food and the pure genius that permeates the streets. Harlem is rising like a phoenix out of the ashes. I mean, that's what all of my various complexes are about, it's restoring that luster.”

— Nathan Louis Jackson, Mariah Dillard, Alfre Woodard, imdb.com

“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem po…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

— Ada Lovelace, amazon.com

“New and inexhaustible sources of general prosperity have been opened; the effects of distance have been averted by the inevitable genius of our people.”

— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com

“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”

— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com

“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be t…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age—which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based o…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success.”

— Edward Allen Bernero, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an I.Q. of 187, an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute. Yes, I'm a genius.”

— Jeff Davis, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute. Yes, I'm a genius.”

— Jeff Davis, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Einstein said that any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. But it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. I'm realizing that my touch of genius and my courage are coming too little, too late.”

— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

“Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success.”

— Edward Allen Bernero, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“If your parents saw a real stupid person, they would realize how much of a genius you are.”

— Paul Tibbitt, Mr. Lawrence, Walt Dohrn, imdb.com

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com

“There are many qualities which we need in order to gain success, but the three above all—for the lack of which no brilliancy and no genius can atone—are Courage, Honesty and Common Sense.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“Anybody that's borderline brilliant — they're gonna suffer with depression. Cause you don't see the world how other people see the world. You see it for what it is. You see it different.”

— Kevin Gates, hotnewhiphop.com

“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”

— William James, amazon.com