Genius Quotes
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
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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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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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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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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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The most profitable and praiseworthy genius in the world is untiring industry.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.
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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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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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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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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
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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?
