Quotes About Genius

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

It is true love that can activate the beauty and power of true genius.

He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

I invoke the genius of the Constitution.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma, or a hideous dream:The genius and the mortal instrumentsAre then in council; and the state of man,Like to a little kingdom, suffers thenThe nature of an insurrection.

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

But these were only things. In return for them the wasicu wanted you to relinquish your own genius, which was not of things but of the spirit. From