Genius Quotes - Page 24

• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Time, Women, Philosophical

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. We can't all have a superhuman intellect like Albert Einstein's, but we can be super-curious. And we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Curiosity, Quitting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Amadeus Mozart is to music something like Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was to literature. They are people who created something that nobody before them had. Absolute geniuses. You can recognize their harmonies among thousands.

  Emmanuel Macron

  People, Literature, Arthur

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• I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.

  Misha Glenny

  Military, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

  Horace

  Failure, Adversity, Prosperity

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• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

  Charles Peguy

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

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• A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Men, Knows

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• Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

  Denis Diderot

  Evil, World, Fame

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations". Book by Mary Collison and Robert L. Collison, p. 98, 1980.

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Voice, Imagination

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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• Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Shining, Over You

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.207, Jaico Publishing House

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• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Weight Loss, Criticism

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Data

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• If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

  A. E. Housman

  Science, Men, Inspire

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Mastery, Knows

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• The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Real, Science, Technology

  1967 The New Industrial State.

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• He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Home, Medicine

  "The Idler".

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• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Motivation, Men

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• Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

  Herman Melville

  Running, Hands, Circles

  "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)

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• Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, People, Connections

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.11, Penguin

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• When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Great Leader, Made

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.52, Routledge

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• [On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.

  Elsa Einstein

  Nature, Giving, Talent

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• It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

  George Pope Morris

  Strong, Together, Sensibility

  Samuel Woodworth, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1830). “The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts”, p.344

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