Quotes About Genius

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!

The mind is masterpiece.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

Story is what brain does. It is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'. Story emerges from human minds as naturally as breath emerges from between human lips. You don't have to be a genius to master it. You're already doing it. Becoming better at telling stories is simply a matter of peering inwards, at the mind itself, and asking how it does it.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

Secondly, barbarous as these poor heathens are, they appear to be as capable of knowledge as we are; and in many places, at least, have discovered uncommon genius and tractableness; and I greatly question whether most of the barbarities practiced by them, have not originated in some real or supposed affront, and are therefore, more properly, acts of self-defence, than proofs of inhuman and blood-thirsty dispositions.