Genius Quotes
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
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
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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
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".
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
Genius is childhood recaptured.Bauldlaire
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
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
Genius is nothing but continued attention.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
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
Genius is talent provided with ideals.William Somerset Maugham
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.Eug? ne Delacroix
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.Anonymous
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
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
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.Henry Havelock Ellis
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
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.Adolf Hitle
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.Malcolm Cowley
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
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
