Geniuses Quotes

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Problems, Solve, Prevent

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

Great, Wine, Water

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Live, Die, Others

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Shortest

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

Fact, Clown, Brothers

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Human, Able

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney

Around, Studio, Allow

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Nothing, Early

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Real, Together, Everyone

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin

Men, Equality, Two

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Sad, Mothers

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis

Ignore, Avoid, Fools

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant

Humility, Few, Left

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden

Same, Luckiest, Mortals

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran

Sleep, Dream, Anyone

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Reason, Creative

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
Elayne Boosler

Good, Thankful, Hard

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
David Duchovny

Happiness, Great, Live

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson

Education, Women, Great

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
will.i.am

Smart, Working, Creative

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Marilyn French

Great, Wine, Water

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley

Society, Fire, Able

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

Genius, Taking, Capacity

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
Charlton Heston

Two, Enough, Three

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
Paula Poundstone

Love, Long, Mean

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
Donald Knuth

Art, Science, Reality

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould

Science, Human, Acting

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
Jon Landau

Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.
Eric Ries

Success, Change, Hope

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