Genius Quotes
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.
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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
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The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
