Quotes About Genius

La loi judaïque toujours subsistante, celle de l'enfant d'Ismaël qui depuis dix siècles régit la moitié du monde, annoncent encore aujourd'hui les grands hommes qui les ont dictées; et tandis que l'orgueilleuse philosophie ou l'aveugle esprit de parti ne voit en eux que d'heureux imposteurs, le vrai politique admire dans leurs institutions ce grand et puissant génie qui préside aux établissements durables.

mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que sólo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.

Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.

Those braces are a goddamn feat of engineering genius," he said. "You take after your old man.

Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn't work hard, but you can't teach what he can do.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

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.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

A good title is a work of a genius!

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.