Genius Quotes
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.Seneca
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude Stein
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.Phil Gramm
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca, Epistles
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann 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
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
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
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
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
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.William Blake
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
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 one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
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
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
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
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
