Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
Great men grow tired of contentedness.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.
Genius lasts longer than beauty
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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