Quotes About Genius

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. I'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain. . . . If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no one else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. And

I thought that if we had a national character and a national genius, these people, who were beginning to be called Okies, were it.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

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

Don't judge someone because of what they did not succeed at or what they were incorrect in. Everyone's a genius in their own way; they just have to discover what they are good at.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be.

Genius lies in reflective power, and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Those who produce works of genius are not those who spend their days in the most refined company, whose conversation is the most brilliant, or whose culture is the broadest; they are those who have the ability to stop living for themselves and make a mirror of their personality, so that their lives, however nondescript they may be socially, or even in a way intellectually, are reflected in it. For genius lies in reflective power, and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.