Genius Quotes
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
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
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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
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 might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
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
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca, Epistles
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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)
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
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
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.Larry Leissne
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
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 Newman
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
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
Genius is nothing but continued attention.Claude Adrien Helvetius
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
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
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
