Genius Quotes
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
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert Hubbard
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, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
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 means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
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
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
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 talent provided with ideals.William Somerset Maugham
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
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
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
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
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
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
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
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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
