Cheerfulness Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

— Jack Kerouac

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?”

— Adolf Hitler

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience,…

— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this…

— Denis Diderot

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of…

— Anonymous

“Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with…

— Solange nicole

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by…

— Edward Gibbon

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

— Andre Malraux

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge