Genius Quotes
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
