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Genius Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
- Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
- Genius: the superhuman in man.
- Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the…
- The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
- Taste is the common sense of genius.
- Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
- There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well…
- His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
- The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash…
- Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
- There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future
- In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter…
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