genius quotes

• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Jonathan Swift) [genius]
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. (Vladimir Nabokov) [genius/dreams]
• Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. (Thomas Gray) [changes/genius]
• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [skill/genius/right/more]
• Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (William James) [genius/truth/more]
• Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. (William James) [genius/men]
• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. (Joseph Addison) [method/men/genius]
• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. (Joseph Addison) [books/genius/mankind/generation]
• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. () [talent/talent/genius]
• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ( Aristotle) [genius]
• No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ( Aristotle) [genius]
• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. (Antonin Artaud) [genius/people/life]
• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. (Francis Bacon) [genius/spirit/nation/proverbs]
• Genius is childhood recaptured. (Jean Baudrillard) [genius/childhood]
• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. (Henry Ward Beecher) [genius/more/genius]
• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. (Henry Ward Beecher) [business/life/genius]
• Poverty is the step-mother of genius. () [genius]
• When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! (William Blake) [genius]
• The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Elizabeth Bowen) [charm/genius/memory/dust]
• A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Samuel Butler) [genius/time/america/life]
• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. (Albert Camus) [genius/art]
• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. (Thomas Carlyle) [genius]
• We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. (Thomas Carlyle) [human/poetry/genius/inspiration]
• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [character/genius]
• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Winston Churchill) [genius/evaluation/awareness]
• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. (Charles Caleb Colton) [genius/posterity/interest/start]
• Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. (Charles Caleb Colton) [wisdom/genius]
• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Charles Caleb Colton) [genius/school]
• Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. (Denis Diderot) [genius/present/age/men]
• Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. (Benjamin Disraeli) [genius]
• Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. (Benjamin Disraeli) [patience/genius]

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