Albert Einstein Quotes About Genius
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
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Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
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Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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Intelligence and genius
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
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An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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The genius is in making the complex simple.
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The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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