Top 55 Geniuses Quotes

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They’re the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I’d learned so much. It’s the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate change is not a liberal versus conservative thing, but the people who profit from ignoring it want you to believe it is.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

We don’t genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors – the number of doctors I’ve seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

If there are nine guys auditioning and they’re all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else – like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay – then that’s me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

I’m fascinated by the concept of what I call ‘clusters of creativity’: the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I’m one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.

If somebody does a task really badly, then that’s better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell people when they get back to the green room after doing a task that they’ve cocked up, ‘You’ve actually really won that task, because people remember them more than the geniuses.’ No one likes the clever people.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Judd Apatow and Paul Reubens are two people who I’d be more than happy to learn from because I think they’re geniuses at what they do.

There’s a certain pattern that exists with geniuses – an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

So, okay, I’m not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

You know what’s a great way of tricking people into thinking you’re a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

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.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

There’s very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it’s a lot of work and a lot of luck.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I’m surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

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

Fundamentalists are crazy. They’re the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don’t believe in that, if you can’t relate to that, it just seems crazy.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.

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.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

Messi and Ronaldo are certainly the best in the world. They are both unbelievable. I am very happy to be a contemporary of these geniuses.

Geniuses always think it’s easier than we make it out to be.

The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don’t expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

I grew up listening to AM radio in the ’70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

Oh, there’s so much ego with men; in their head, they can’t possibly think about Tesco’s when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can’t muddy their day with domesticity, and I’ve got no truck with it whatsoever.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I wouldn’t use the word ‘scared’ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we’re recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox… I don’t like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

Geniuses don’t have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

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.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That’s who comes to mind.

We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They’re completely out of my genre but they’re both musical geniuses.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

I do have some very strange thoughts… Still, all geniuses are mad aren’t they?

I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.

It’s something I’ve seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

I think all kids are creative, so I wouldn’t say my kids are geniuses. But they immediately respond to music. And they’ve got great rhythm!

The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.

Working with intelligent people is easy, but we should be careful with geniuses.

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

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.