Genius Quotes - Page 28

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Genius is full of trash.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.