Quotes About Genius

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Everyone always says one door closes to let another open. A true genius already has their foot in the next door before the other one shuts.

They say there is a fine line between genius & insanity....so I picked it up & went fishing

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Whatever opinion may be formed of the extent of his dissipation in Dumfries, one fact is unquestionable, that his powers remained unimpaired to the last; it was there he produced his finest lyrics, and they are the finest, as well as the purest, that ever delighted mankind.

He lingered until the 21st of July, 1796, when he expired. The interest which the death of Burns excited was intense. All differences were forgotten; his genius only was thought of. On the 26th of the same month he was conveyed to the grave, followed by about ten thousand individuals of all ranks, many of whom had come from distant parts of the country to witness the solemnity. He was interred with military honors by the Dumfries volunteers, to which body he had belonged.