Genius Quotes
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca, Epistles
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann von Goethe
Genius is nothing but continued attention.Claude Adrien Helvetius
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
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 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
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
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
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
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
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
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 genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
