Genius Quotes - Page 30

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.