Genius Quotes

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is… — Honore de Balzac
Every great genius has an admixture of madness. — Aristotle
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. — Immanuel Kant
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals,… — Ambrose Bierce
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. — Woody Allen
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote
Silence is all the genius a fool has. — Zora Neale Hurston
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to… — Charles Dickens
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
Passion is like genius: a miracle. — Romain Rolland
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. — Glenn Close
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. — Agnes Repplier
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed… — Barack Obama
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger

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