Genius Quotes - Page 13

• Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Standards, Superiors

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

  Paul Cezanne

  Emotional, Ability, Daily Experience

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• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Missing You, Stupid, Moving

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• Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
  We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
  Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
  And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Party, Mind

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• History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Literature, Virtue

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

  Madame de Stael

  Contemplation, Form, Wit

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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Power, Firsts

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• Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

  Henry Fuseli

  Heaven, Earth, Obstacles

  Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.64

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Age, Six

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Infinite

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

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• Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophy, Science, Imagination

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.

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• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Time, Learning, Men

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.254, Louisa May Alcott

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• A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

  Pablo de Sarasate

  Years, Practice, Musician

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• The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Class, People

  "Matters of Fact and Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 280), 1978.

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• I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Humanity

  "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millenium". Book by Thomas T. K. Zung, p. 174. Statement made in 1974, 2002.

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• Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Doe, Opinion

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• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Intelligence, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1924). “Essays”

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• The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
  [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lasts, Firsts, Genies

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• Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Motivation, Men, Observation

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• Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

  Bernard Berenson

  Training, Reactions, Capacity

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

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• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  Madame de Stael

  Creativity, Creative, Bears

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Love, Art, Discipline

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