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GENIUs quotes
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls; the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes; the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth: these produce the agreeable and the profitable, and are conversant in commerce, finances, war, navigation, arts, trades, society, and conversation.
Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by wit, genius, and sense, than by humor.
To carry the feelings of childhood into the Dowers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Genius must be born; it never can be taught.
Nothing will give permanent success in any enterprise of life, except native capacity cultivated by honest and persevering effort.—Genius is often but the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Genius is entitled to respect, only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons.
A man's genius is always, in the beginning of life, as much unknown to himself as to others; and it is only after frequent trials, attended with success, that he dares think himself equal to those undertakings in which those who have succeeded have fixed the admiration of mankind.
Genius is but a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direction.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Genius is infinite painstaking.
All the means of action—the shapeless masses—the materials—lie everywhere about us.—What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear.— That fire is genius.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stems.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind; no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded.
Genius does what it must, and talent what it can.
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant is in darkness.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Genius may be described as the spirit of discovery.—It is the eye of intellect, and the wing of thought.—It is always in advance of its time—the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
The merit of great men is not understood but by those who are formed to be such themselves.—Genius speaks only to genius.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, and if they were united the world could not stand before them.
Genius finds its own road, and carries its own lamp.
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