Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.
Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.
Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up. " I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
Even a genius has his questions.
Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.