Genius Quotes - Page 16

• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Truth, Literature

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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• Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Poetry, Example

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer”, p.170, e-artnow

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Pain, Infinite, Capacity

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• Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Neglected, Shabby

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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• Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Believe, Book, Judging

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• Dandyism is a variety of genius.

  William Hazlitt

  Dandyism, Variety

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• It will work. I am a marketing genius.

  Paris Hilton

  Marketing

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• The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Courage, Vigor, Eccentric

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, Strong, Powerful

  John Henry Newman, Mary Katherine Tillman (2001). “Rise and Progress of Universities And, Benedictine Essays”, p.85, Gracewing Publishing

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• Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  Claire Messud

  Biographies

  Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.288, Pan Macmillan

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• The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Scared, Being Scared

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• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

  May Sarton

  Baby, Forget, Persons

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• Genius is independent of situation.

  Charles Churchill

  Independent, Situation

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Information, Evaluation

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• The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

  Auguste Rodin

  Men, Color, Drawing

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, Lapses, Kind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454

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• Passion is the genesis of genius.

  Tony Robbins

  Passion, Action, Genesis

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• Every true genius is bound to be naive.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Intelligence, Literature, Naive

  "Schiller's Poems‎". Book by Friedrich Schiller, p. 200, 1905.

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• A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Twitter post from Jun 20, 2016

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• Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

  Lita Grey

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Looks

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• The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Writing, Metaphor

  Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Genius Borrows nobly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plagiarism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.154

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