Genius Quotes - Page 37

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.