Genius Quotes
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 Newman
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert Hubbard
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
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 distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
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
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.Margaret Fulle
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Josh Billings
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
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.Adolf Hitle
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
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
Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.Cesare Lombroso
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.E. F. Schumache
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
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
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.Larry Leissne
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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
