Genius Quotes
If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.
There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented.
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.
The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.
It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.
Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.