Genius Quotes
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian -
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
Dorothy Dunnett -
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
William Butler Yeats -
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
Thomas Starr King -
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo -
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli -
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
F. E. Smith -
success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
Cynthia Heimel -
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
Babette Deutsch -
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.
John Ruskin
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp -
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
Rachel Cusk -
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Oscar Wilde -
Genius sees the answer before the question.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein
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A good title is a work of a genius!
E. Haldeman-Julius -
"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness.
Esther Hicks -
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst -
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
Adam Mansbach