Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Intelligence

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

• To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Impossible, Talent

• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Talent, Mark

• Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Latent, Presumption

• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

• Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Ideas, Filters

• I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Husband, Father

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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