Genius Quotes
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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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The source of genius is imagination alone.
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Even the brain, that most delicate and complex of all known organs, is not merely a lot of neurons added together. While a genius must have more of the gray matter than a sparrow, the idiot may have just as much as the genius. The difference between them must be explained in terms of how those substances are organized.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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Sleeping is the height of genius.
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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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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her...
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
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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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Donald Trump stood up and was asked a very specific question, if there's an undocumented illegal in the military or wants to serve in the military, can they stay? And he said, "You know what? I think that's a good idea."That's brilliant. That's genius.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
