Genius Quotes - Page 9

• The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Persons, Indebted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Vigor, Talent, Produce

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• Genius has no brother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Brother

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Modesty, Little Women, Finest

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

  Pablo Picasso

  Errors, Personality, Pennies

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• Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Divinity

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Mankind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  William James

  Philosophical, Essence, Awareness

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• Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Office, Age, Ephemeral

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846). “Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts”, p.18

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• Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Simple

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Fortune, Companion

  "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Intelligence, Use

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Christian, Life And Love

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Talent, Century

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Intelligence

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Men, Every Man

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Educational, Snow

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Hiroshima

  Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2

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