Real Genius Quotes:

Everybody wants to rule the world.

- Eric Halvorsen

topic: World, Want, Real Genius, Retaliation

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Years, Genius, Original Ideas, Real Intelligence, Geniality

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

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Real, Real Genius

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

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Real, Writing, Genius, Real Genius

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

- Edmund Wilson

topic: Real, Genius, Moral, Real Genius

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

- E. T. A. Hoffmann

source: E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

topic: Real, Simplicity, Plies, Real Genius

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Insanity And Genius, Misunderstood Genius

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

- Anna Pavlova

topic: Life, Motivational, Dance, Ballerina, Real Talent

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

- Arfa Karim

topic: Girl, Boys, People, Real Genius

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

- Michel Petrucciani

topic: Music, Believe, Hard Work, Pianist, Real Genius

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Real, Government, People, E Commerce, Real Genius

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

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Real, Genius, World, Real Genius

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

- Dmitri Shostakovich

source: "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.

topic: Real, Writing, Mediocrity, Real Genius

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.313, e-artnow

topic: Real, Self, Breathing, Man And Superman, Real Genius

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

- Val Kilmer

topic: Thinking, Said, Immortal, Drank, Real Genius

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

- Max Euwe

topic: Real, Long, Preparation, Alekhine, Real Genius

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.

- John Todd

source: John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23

topic: Real, Men, Differences, Isaac, Real Genius

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.

- W. Cleon Skousen

source: W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

topic: Real, Genius, Doe, Lack Of Understanding, American Constitution

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.

- David Foster

topic: Crazy, Military, Real, Real Genius

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.

- Thomas Gainsborough

source: Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.

topic: Real, Character, Gentleman, Inconsistent, Real 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.

- Danielle Trussoni

topic: Real, Dying, Desire, Armour, Real Genius

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.

- Val Kilmer

topic: Fake People, Real, Thinking, Books And Movies, Because I Care

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

- Albert Pike

topic: Real, Book, Men, Real Genius

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.

- Erwin Chargaff

topic: Real, Men, Wind, Real Genius

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.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Queens, Real, Mean, Subjection, Real Genius

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Real, War, Home, Real Genius