Genius Quotes
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.Larry Leissne
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
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
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
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.Unknown
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.William Hazlitt
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.Cesare Lombroso
Common sense is as rare as genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.Malcolm Cowley
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert Hubbard
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.Adolf Hitle
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
