Genius Quotes

A clone of Einstein wouldn’t be stupid, but he wouldn’t necessarily be any genius, either.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

There’s a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term “genius,” but you’re treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

You don’t find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn’t mean to say you can’t be really good.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

The term “genius” gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.