Genius Quotes - Page 38

• The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Talent, Moments

  "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Time, Moving, Book

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• Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Champion, India, Chess

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• Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

  Alexander Alekhine

  World, Chess, Lost

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Chess, Capablanca

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• Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess

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• In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.

  Mia Michaels

  Uncomfortable, Feels

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• Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

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• God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Robert Burns (1819). “The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c”, p.215

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• He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.

  Warren Winiarski

  Wine, Two, Imagination

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• Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Teaching, Artist, Brave

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• Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Data, Forget, Invention

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mistake, Thinking

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• Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Thinking, Focus

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• I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Long, Fruit

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• Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

  Mario Puzo

  Mean, Men, Competition

  1969 The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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• In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless.

  Daniel Dennett

  Beautiful, Order, Perfect

  "Cute, sexy, sweet, funny". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2009.

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• Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work

  Robert Nozick

  Fashion, Supposing That, People

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• As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Unlimited Potential, Imagination

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• An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ambition, Clear Goals, Average

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• Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purpose, Fine, Observation

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• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Peace, People

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• The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Talent, Heard

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

  David Gerrold

  Assessment, Expression, Intelligence

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