Genius Quotes

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Genius is intuition on fire.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

One genius is about all a house will hold.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Genius requires an audience.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.