Biographies Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

— Claire Messud

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

— Otto Weininger

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than…

— Mel Brooks

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

— Cesare Lombroso

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

— John Keats

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

— Erich Segal

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

— Salvador Dali

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

— Tallulah Bankhead