Quotes About Genius

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

The great artist is the simplifier.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit