339 quotes found
“Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.”
“To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.”
“Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
“It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.”
“Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”
“In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.”
“When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.”
“Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
“The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
“Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.”
“Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.”
“Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
“The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives all else is claimed by death.”
“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.”
