Genius Quotes

Oscar wilde, the critic as artist, 1891 - the public is wonderfully tolerant. it forgives...
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
Michael j. gel - brain researchers estimate that your unconscious...
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
Any 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.
E. F. Schumache
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fulle
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
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.
Epictetus
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
George Steine
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
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
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
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
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhaue
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
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
Michael J. Gel
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
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.
Unknown
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 essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon