Genius Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Download Open image “That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Intelligence Masterpiece World
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
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 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
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson 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