Genius Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Harm Intelligence
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
