Genius Quotes

Joseph addison - if you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance...
Ambrose gwinett bierce - genius - to know without having learned to draw...
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 without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
George bernard shaw - common sense is instinct. enough of it is genius....
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
Bertrand Russell
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
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
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
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
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
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
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
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
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
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
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
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
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
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
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.
Unknown
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
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
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
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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
Genius is born - - Not paid.
Oscar Wilde
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald