Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 8
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
It is always well to get near to men of genius.
William Henry Moody
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert Blair
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Anonymous
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Too often we forget that genius … depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions.
Ernest Dimnet
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth Barrett
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man’s crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May Sarton
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James McNeill Whistler
The parting genius is with sighing sent.
Anonymous
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
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