Genius Quotes
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
I have nothing to declare but my genius.Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
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
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
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
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
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
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.E. R. Bulwer - Lytton, Last Words (1860)
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.Unknown
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Josh Billings
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
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 without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.L. B. Walton
