Quotes About Genius

However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly,—therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

All this is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Disminuir el número de los tenebrosos, aumentar el de los luminosos; tal es el grande objeto. Por esto gritamos: ¡Enseñanza! ¡Ciencia! Aprender a leer es encender el fuego; toda sílaba deletreada brilla. Pero el que dice luz, no dice necesariamente goces. También se padece en la luz, porque el exceso quema. La llama es enemiga de las alas. Arder sin cesar de volar es el prodigio del genio.

Todo lo que es grande inspira un horror sagrado. Es fácil admirar las medianías y las colinas; pero lo que es grandísimo, genio o monte, asamblea u obra maestra, visto de cerca espanta.

Du reste qui dit lumière ne dit pas nécessairement joie. On souffre dans la lumière; l'excès brûle. La flamme est ennemie de l'aile. Brûler sans cesser de voler, c'est là le prodige du génie.

La vejez no hace presa en los genios de lo ideal; para los Dante y los Miguel Ángel, envejecer es crecer; para los Aníbal y los Bonaparte, ¿es menguar?

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.

The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius; and it almost always happens that those who use it to cover themselves in one place, lay themselves open in another.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

He got rid of the punchline to prove that stand-up could be anything, which is what geniuses do: they blow up mothballed conventions in their chosen genre and show you how a song, or a poem, or a sculpture, can take any form.

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

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Aristotle wrote that metaphor is the hallmark of genius.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

Nature has frequently planted astonishing genius in men of monstrously ugly appearance.

Mucho más potente que el oro es, en opinión mía, la inteligencia.

En todos los grandes hombres de ciencia, existe el soplo de la fantasía, madre de las intuiciones geniales.

N-am încotro: orice-aÈ™ face, mie-mi plac întotdeauna extremele. În materie de fiinÈ›e, nu agreez decât animalele È™i plantele des?vârÈ™ite, decât pe aceia care-È™i fac cinstit treaba, f?r? s? priceap? altceva, f?r? s? se vânture de ici-colo, p?l?vr?gind È™i urm?rindu-È™i ambiÈ›iile, sau geniul adev?rat, sufletul m?reÈ›, eroul uriaÈ™ È™i solitar ca un munte de noapte.

Não existe no mundo raça mais necessária do que os imbecis. Se não houvesse génios, ainda seríamos bárbaros, mas sem néscios a espécie humana teria terminado desde longa data.

sono un uomo comune e quindi mi pare, parlando di me e dei miei, di fare un po' la storia dei milioni e milioni di uomini comuni che, con la loro assennata mediocrità, tengono in piedi la baracca di questo mondo. Quella baracca che gli uomini "eccezionali", gli uomini "fuori dal comune" tentano di scardinare con la loro genialità.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.