Genius Quotes
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.Anonymous
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
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
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
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
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
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
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.Larry Leissne
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
Genius is childhood recaptured.Bauldlaire
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
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
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
