Quotes About Genius

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

common sense is as rare as genius,—is the basis of genius, and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;—

There is a great sadness in knowing that men of genius are not able to transcend the limits of patriarchy. Had I but known that the works I so cherished had been done by human beings, not gods, and that great women, including feminists, had also once lived and worked, I suspect I might have been able to break free sooner from a whole host of fatally misguided notions. What we don't know can hurt us.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

And he who mingles music with gymnastic in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings. You are quite right, Socrates. And such a presiding genius will be always required in our State if the government is to last. Yes

I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.