Quotes About Genius

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others).

As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.

Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining cloud upon which Christ set His foot to go up into heaven.

I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society." "You

She then had one of those sudden inspirations which only people of genius receive in great crises, in supreme moments which are to decide their fortunes or their lives.

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

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Dar poate c? genovezul f?cea parte din categoria oamenilor inteligenÈ›i, care nu È™tiu niciodat? decât ce trebuie s? È™tie, È™i care nu cred decât ce au interesul s? cread?.

Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?

Listen a me, all you! Listen, man! Gonna sermonize, me. Dig this, you!' He was answered with a roar. 'You pigs, you. You rot like pigs, is all. You got the most in you and you use the least. You hear me, You? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All of you. Every you....

From their example, I learnt quickly to feed myself. It was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our geniuses, the more isolated we grew...And indeed, if our family was a sort of artists' colony, could it not be even more accurately described as a mildly autistic colony? Our selves were all we had.