Quotes About Genius

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.