Genius Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Intelligence Ruined
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
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
