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
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
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
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
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!William Blake
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 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
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F Scott
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
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
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
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
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
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
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.E. R. Bulwer - Lytton, Last Words (1860)
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.Max Gluckman
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.Michael J. Gel
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
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
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James
