Genius Quotes
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
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
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.Margaret Fulle
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
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
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.Seneca
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.Adolf Hitle
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
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
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
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
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.Joseph Addison
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius is childhood recaptured.Bauldlaire
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
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
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!William Blake
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
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
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
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
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
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
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
