Quotes About Genius

By looking at the behavior of the cells in our own body, we can observe the most extraordinary and efficient expression of The Seven Spiritual Laws. This is the genius of nature's intelligence. These are the thoughts of God - the rest are details.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

The Eiffel Tower, one of the most astounding manifestations of human genius, can be digitally described as 984; 85; 3; 63; 1,000,000; 1889 - because it is nine hundred eighty-four feet high, offers the visibility as far as eighty-five miles from the top, on a clear day. The Tower has three elevators, and each elevator can carry sixty-three people. When the Eiffel Tower was built, it costed about one million dollars in 1889.

What we wear is often the reflection of how we feel. When we wear jeans, it reflects the most comfortable, gentle and warm mood we're in on that day IMHO. I also think that whenever a beauty or a genius wears jeans, it surely makes the most impactful fashion statement.

Valkyrie: "You are such a moron." Skulduggery: "Don't be jealous of my genius.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius