G Quotes
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“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”
Source: Philosophers and Actresses
“Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker”
“Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.”
“Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.”
Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America
“Genius has no brother.”
“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”
“genius has no limit of sex or race.”
Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920
“Genius has no taste for weaving sand.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.”
Source: Table-talk
“Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
“Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius”
“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.”
“Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.”
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.”
“Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.”
“Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
Source: Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
“Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.”
“Genius involves both envy and calumny.”
“Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It’s about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness is completely, utterly, made.”
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration”
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.”
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.”
“Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”
“Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.”
“Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.”
“Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.”
“Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.”
“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”
“Genius is a rising stock market.”
“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”
Source: Lectures on Calvinism
“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.”
“Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.”
“Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.”
“Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.”
“Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.”
“Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.”
“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.”
“Genius is always driven by extreme passion. It has to be motivated by a loss in the past.”
Source: Jadu
“Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.”
Source: Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire
“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
Source: The Gift
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”