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Real Genius Quotes

Edmund Wilson quote: "Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any..."
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. Edmund Wilson
Simone Weil quote: "Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of..."
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Simone Weil
We stood silent. After a moment I said, "Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses."Who says?"Me."Because why?"Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything. Jeffrey Eugenides
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses..."
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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... Alexander Dumas
Albert Pike quote: "Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books"
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books Albert Pike
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 Wallace
E. T. A. Hoffmann quote: "Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius..."
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? E. T. A. Hoffmann
Leo Burnett quote: "I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it..."
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. Leo Burnett
Daniel J. Boorstin quote: "I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real..."
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. Daniel J. Boorstin
J. G. Ballard quote: "Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. Ballard
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer. Louisa May Alcott
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Pablo Picasso
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. Vivienne Westwood
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. Simone Weil

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