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Genius Quotes

“The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 3. Prof. M Waldman encouraging Victor to take the road of scientific discovery.

Mental stability and stable genius quote by Donald Trump

Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart…I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star, to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius…and a very stable genius at that!

– Donald Trump

Probably one of his most dumb self-congratulatory statements.

Linus van Pelt: My teacher…understands me!
Lucy van Pelt: Either she’s a genius or she’s new on the job.

– Charles M. Schulz

Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. You can’t simply say, ‘Today I will be brilliant.’

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’.

A very stable genius.

– Donald Trump

Describing himself in a Tweet.

I don’t think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently – so beyond how one is supposed to think.

– Hanya Yanagihara

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

– Guy de Maupassant

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

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Alexandre Dumas-fils

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

– Henry David Thoreau

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

– Golan Levin

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

– Heinrich Heine

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

– Henri Bergson

What’s genius about ‘Gravity’ is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

– Gavin Hood

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

– Henry Adams

It requires genius to make a good pun – some men of bright parts can’t reach it.

– Hannah Cowley

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

– J. G. Ballard

The only good political movement I’ve seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

– John Lydon

I’d describe ‘Psych’ as ‘Real Genius’ meets ‘Django Unchained.’

– James Roday

Genius is patience.

– Isaac Newton

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I’m still not sure if he’s a genius or very thick. It’s a fine line.

– Hugh Bonneville

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

– Isaac D’Israeli

David Ortiz is a genius. He’s incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

– Juliana Hatfield

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

– John Ciardi

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

– James Fenton

Genius is initiative on fire.

– Holbrook Jackson

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

– Jason Calacanis

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