There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but… — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,… — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image