If you bring forth what is within you,
What you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, What you do not bring forth will destroy you.
—Jesus, from The Gospel According to Thomas |
| Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Kierkegaard |
| Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
Thomas Huxley |
| Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C. W. Ceran |
| Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nevell Bovee |
| The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain |
We will all discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain |
| Genius never desires what does not exist.
Kierkegaard |
| The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe |
| Genius is the ability to escape the human condition; Humanity is the need to escape.
Q. Uim |
| Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius |
| A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
Author unknown |
| Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace |
| Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell |
| Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
Otto Weininger |
| True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.
Puzant Thomajan |
| If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Goethe |
| Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln |
| Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
Samuel Johnson |
| Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Christopher Quill |
| Once you had to be a genius to make works of art. Now you have to be a genius to understand them.
Roy Emmins |
| When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
William Crashaw |
| Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
G. C. Lichtenberg |
| The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur Koestler |
| People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes |
| A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Nietzsche |
| Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Disraeli |
| The ability of someone to choose and arrange the details of their creative field guided by a vision is a major hallmark of a genius.
John Briggs |
| To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-tzu |
| Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein |
| Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard |
| Genius is not so much about new ideas as it is about clarity of ideas. Two people can have the same idea yet it will be genius in the one and mediocrity in the other.
Kevin Solway |
| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel T. Coleridge |
| Genius is born, not paid.
Oscar Wilde |
| Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang A. Mozart |
| The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Goethe |
| Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
Mark Twain |
| Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Robert Graves |
| Genius . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound |
| A man of genius makes no mistakes . His Errors are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce |
| I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde's response to an American customs official
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde |
| Andy Warhol is the only genius with an IQ of 60.
Gore Vidal |
| Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith |
| The reason we have so few geniuses is that people do not have faith in what they know to be true.
Kevin Solway |
| Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Kierkegaard |
