Genius Quotes
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There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
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I can't take his genius any more.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
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Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.
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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word genius to.
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I'd always wanted to be an idiot genius Soho alcoholic.
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Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
