Genius Quotes
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.Woodrow Wilson
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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
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
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
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
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
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 without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
Genius is talent provided with ideals.William Somerset Maugham
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
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.Unknown
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
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
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
