Genius Quotes
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
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
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
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
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
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann von Goethe
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 - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.Malcolm Cowley
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
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
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!William Blake
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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
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
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
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
Genius is childhood recaptured.Bauldlaire
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
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
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
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
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
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
