Genius Quotes

Georg christoph lichtenberg - everyone is a genius at least once a year. the...
Arthur schlesinger, jr. - the genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it...
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child
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
Henri frdric amiel - doing easily what others find difficult is talent...
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 Cardinal Newman
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
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
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
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
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
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
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
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
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
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
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
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
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
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".
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
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
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butle
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Henry Havelock Ellis
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
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart