Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Genius

• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Science, Genius

• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Common Sense, Genius

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Business, Ordinary

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.293

• Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Genius, Carts, Fiery

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