Burning Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Stanislaw Lem

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

— Anonymous

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

— Eric Butterworth

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

— Phillips Brooks

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

— Anonymous

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

— Benjamin Franklin

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan