Acting Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider…

— Honore de Balzac

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

— Albert Einstein

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber…

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable…

— Abraham Kuyper

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

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

— Elbert Hubbard

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things…

— Benjamin Haydon

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

— Samuel Butler