Genius Quotes - Page 31

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Genius speaks only to genius.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.