Genius Quotes
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
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
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.Carl Sagan
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.Unknown
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
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
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
An 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.Hoshang N. Akhta
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
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
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
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
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
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.Eug? ne Delacroix
