Genius Quotes
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 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
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
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
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.Michael J. Gel
Any 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.E. F. Schumache
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
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
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.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
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 will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.Unknown
