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Genius Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
- Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
- As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws…
- To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day…
- Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
- In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it…
- The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then…
- Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal…
- Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
- It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize…
- The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
- To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
- The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in…
- Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the…
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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