Genius Quotes - Page 32

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Genius is intellect constructive.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Genius Borrows nobly.

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.