Quotes about genius
genius labor deserve
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
genius persons indebted
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
genius talent
Genius is power, talent is applicability.
genius plagiarism
Genius Borrows nobly.
genius sitting debt
We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.
genius may add
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
genius ends
Genius is its own end.
genius intellect constructive
Genius is intellect constructive.
genius harm
Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.
genius months band
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius... Lenny Kravitz
genius boldness
Boldness in itself is genius. L. Ron Hubbard
genius pity paint
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Marc Chagall
genius way sticks
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success. Thomas A. Edison
genius becoming impossible
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. Simone de Beauvoir
genius taste would-be
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. Joshua Reynolds
genius kind masculinity
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. Otto Weininger
genius may common
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
genius chaos mystery
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
genius individual cases
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
genius arrogant scorn
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. Ouida
genius
Ricky Gervais is a genius. Oscar Nunez
genius talent stealing
Talent borrows, genius steals! Oscar Wilde
genius definitions humans
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them. Kanye West
genius scene magnolias
I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted. Patton Oswalt
genius carts fiery
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. Henry Ward Beecher
genius proportion vulgar
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. Johann Kaspar Lavater
genius contemplation form
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. Madame de Stael
genius
A happy genius is the gift of nature. John Dryden
genius idiot constitution
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots Joseph J. Ellis
genius invisible paint
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features Joseph Joubert
genius talent influence
The persecution of genius fosters its influence. Tacitus
genius asks
Even the genius ask questions. Tupac Shakur
genius virtue found
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. Van Wyck Brooks