Genius Quotes

Henry david thoreau - what is called genius is the abundance of life...
Bauldlaire - genius is childhood recaptured....
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
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
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
Arthur schlesinger, jr. - the genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it...
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.
Unknown
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
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butle
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
William Hazlitt
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhaue
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
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
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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
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
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.
Woodrow Wilson
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
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