Genius Quotes - Page 11

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.