Genius Quote by Horace Walpole

“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's creative potentialities…

— Anonymous

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the…

— Lytton Strachey

“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?”

— Joseph Conrad

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.

— Anonymous

“But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me—naively dazzled and wholly…

— Samuel R. Delany

“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.”

— Eliot Grayson

“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself…

— Ivan Turgenev

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that…

— Margaret Halsey

“He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself”

— Khaled Hosseini

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

— Fuxi

“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is…

— Voltaire