Beauty Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

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

— Stanislaw Lem

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

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great…

— George Edward Woodberry

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“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

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him,…

— Alexander Pope

“The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson