Genius Quotes
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.Edgar Lee Masters
Genius is talent provided with ideals.William Somerset Maugham
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.Denis Diderot
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.Gore Vidal
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?Epictetus, Discourses
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.Bertrand Russell
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.Epictetus
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!William Blake
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.Johann Kaspar Lavate
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Cardinal Newman
