Genius

Quotes

• “If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men ...”
• “Humor is properly the exponent of low things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. The man of Humor sees ...”
• “Ever since the French revolution there has developed a vicious, cretinizing tendency to consider a genius (apart from hi...”
• “Eleanor Farjeon's world is construed of fantasy, romance, and an abounding yea-saying joy in the experience of life. It ...”
• “It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral value...”
• “Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that wh...”
• “The genius is an omnipotent Ansich [in-itself] which as such would rock the whole world. For the sake of order, another ...”
• “The genius stands to the ordinary person as a Buddhist or Hindu jivanmukta (enlightened soul) stands to a jiva (mere sou...”
• “Edmund Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar, Colin's Emblem. End (1715). Quoted. Peacham, Minerva Britanna I (1612). Said to be ...”
• “We may say that there are two outstanding human types, one the saint and the other the genius. Religion has tended to re...”
• “Watson and Crick were touted as the geniuses of molecular biology and lionized by the media. When a field is new, or new...”
• “The genuinely extraordinary person is the genuine ordinary person. The more of the universally human an individual can a...”
• “The life of the most successful writer has rarely been other than of toil and privation; and here I cannot but notice a ...”
• “Denis Diderot, "Génie" in the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, ed. Alain Po...”
• “Now, these men weren't idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their think...”
• “The wild force of genius has oft been fated by nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength.… The volcano sends up it...”
• “Men give way before the power of genius, they hate it and try to blow upon it because it takes without sharing the plund...”
• “Whilst the exploits of the conqueror and the intrigues of the demagogue are faithfully preserved through a succession of...”
• “There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now loo...”
• “Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare con...”
• “Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man; Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Blot out my ...”
• “There is a great analogy between grace and genius, for genius is a grace. The real man of genius is the one who acts by ...”
• “Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression...”
• “George-Louis de Buffon, narrated by Herault de Séchelles (La visite à Buffon, ou Voyage à Montbard, 1790), when speaking...”
• “I felt that writing for bread would soon have stifled my genius and destroyed my talents, which were more those of the h...”
• “Variant translation: I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw th...”
• “A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived...”
• “Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to wo...”
• “Ellice Hopkins, Work amongst Working Men, in Notes and Queries (13 September 1879), p. 213, a correspondent, H. P. state...”
• “Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and ...”
• “Genius is bound to be indulgent. It should know human errors so well - has, with its large luminous forces, such errors ...”
• “Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor ...”
• “All the means of action - The shapeless masses, the materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need Is the celestial f...”
• “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability...”
• “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833), translated by Elisabeth Stopp (Penguin, 1998), Maxim 382; fir...”
• “As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and gen...”
• “Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life ...”
• “Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the unive...”
• “We declare to you that the earth has exhausted its contingent of master-spirits. Now for decadence and general closing. ...”
• “Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, tru...”
• “The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of ...”
• “Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a ...”
• “Learning we thank, Genius we revere: That gives us pleasure, This gives us rapture; That informs, This inspires; and is ...”
• “The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death ...”
• “The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is no...”
• “Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspir...”
• “François-René de Chateaubriand, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sourc...”
• “Thomas Carlyle, Life of Fredrick the Great, Book IV, Chapter 3 (1858-1865); in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotat...”
• “There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even o...”
• “George Farquhar, Love and a Bottle. Epilogue written and spoken by Joseph Haynes. The motto "Vivitur ingenio" appears to...”