Quotes about Genius
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
- Bo Burnham
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
- John Lennon
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- George Eliot
In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.
- Edmund Burke
A storm broke loose in my mind.
- Albert Einstein
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
- William Wordsworth
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
- Hannah More
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.
- Zig Ziglar
Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.
- Gordon Hinckley