339 quotes found
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. ”
“Genius is patience.”
“Genius is eternal patience.”
“The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death. ”
“Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.”
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”
“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”
“Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.”
“It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous...”
“The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.”
“The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds...”
“Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'”
“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.”
“I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of ...”
