Appearing Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a…

— John Taylor Gatto

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary,…

— Marcel Proust

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

“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization are twins…

— Myron Sharaf

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of…

— John Taylor Gatto

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 union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are…

— Wallace D. Wattles

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

— Henry David Thoreau