Genius Quotes
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
