Accounts Quote by William Crashaw

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

— Simone Weil

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

— Charles M. Schwab

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

— David Gerrold

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

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said,…

— Walter Isaacson