Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Passion, Imagination, Judging

• Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Soul, Three, Genius

• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Time, Moving, Book

• Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Giants, Genius, Talent

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.162

• Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Genius, Talent, Fountain

• The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  People, Genius, Cheerfulness

• Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Genius, May, Poverty

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.38

• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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