Genius Quotes
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
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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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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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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 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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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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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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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
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Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes happy and on some people’s hearts he writes sad and on some people’s hearts he writes crazy and on some people’s hearts he writes genius and on some people’s hearts he writes angry and on some people’s hearts he writes winner and on some people’s hearts he writes loser.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
