#geniuses

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#dozen #fairly #genius #geniuses #got

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#geniuses #ten #up

Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#humor #wrongness #humor

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#advised #agenda #because #geniuses #just

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#butcher #dream #equal #escape #geniuses

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#geniuses #humility #left #more #needs

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit