Genius Quotes
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
