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Genius Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
- Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
- It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
- Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
- Common sense is the genius of humanity.
- If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life
- Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can…
More Genius Quotes
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all… — George Matthew Adams