Genius Quotes
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
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
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.Douglas Adams
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.Unknown
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.Carl Jung
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
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
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.Anonymous
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.William Hazlitt
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca, Epistles
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
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
