Genius Quotes
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
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
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
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.Douglas Adams
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
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.Seneca
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann von Goethe
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
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
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
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
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
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
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
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
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
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
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
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
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
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca, Epistles
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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
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
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
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
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.Mark Twain
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F Scott
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
