Darkness Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

— Stanislaw Lem

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

— Franz Grillparzer

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

— Kedar Joshi

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer…

— William Gilmore Simms

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

— Joseph Joubert

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

— Ambrose Bierce

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

— Eugene Delacroix