Genius Quotes - Page 67

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Intelligence and genius

The genius is in making the complex simple.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.