Genius Quotes
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
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Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.
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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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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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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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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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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
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... France is the genius among nations.
