Character Quote by Thomas Gainsborough

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“A man must have a very rare genius to make changes of that sort. I am afraid mine would not carry me even to…

— George Eliot

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

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

“... 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

“The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.”

— Om Swami

You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

— John Requa

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies…

— Douglas Fairbanks