Genius Perception Quotes

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

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

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...