Quotes on “genius”

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.