Bears Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all…

— Robert Graves

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“As one whose genius has been duly certified by several dozen learned biographers, I think I may say a word or two on the…

— Stanisław Lem

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol