Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
. . . one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Genius appeals to the future.
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people. . . . Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius.