Real Genius Quotes

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Everybody wants to rule the world.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

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

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

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

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim