Genius Quotes
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
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
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
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
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
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)
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.Larry Leissne
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
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.Unknown
Common sense is as rare as genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
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
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Josh Billings
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
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
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
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
