G Quotes
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“Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”
“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.”
Source: The magic of dance
“Genius is another word for magic.”
Source: The magic of dance
“Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.”
“Genius is astute enough to understand its own depravity. Ignorance doesn’t know what depravity is. And stupidity might know what it is, but it’s convinced that it's immune to it.”
“Genius is becoming something you were all along.”
“Genius is born-not paid”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!”
“Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.”
“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”
“Genius is childhood recalled at will.”
“Genius is childhood recaptured.”
“Genius is clairvoyant.”
Source: Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
“Genius is eternal patience.”
“Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.”
“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.”
Source: The Doorbell Rang
“Genius is fostered by industry.”
“Genius is full of trash.”
Source: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II
“Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.”
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!”
“Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.”
Source: The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures
“Genius is independent of situation.”
“Genius is individual, scenius is communal.”
“Genius is infinite painstaking.”
“Genius is initiative on fire.”
“Genius is insanity right up until it works.”
“Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.”
Source: Essays in Literary Interpretation
“Genius is intuition on fire.”
“Genius is its own end.”
Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.”
“Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.”
“Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side”
“Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.”
Source: Atlantic Essays
“Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.”
“Genius is mainly an affair of energy.”
Source: Essays in Criticism
“Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex”
“Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.”
“Genius is merely childhood recollected at will.”
“Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
“Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.”
“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!”
“Genius is never understood in its own time.”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”
“Genius is not born overnight, they persist in trying times, optimize their approach, and restraint from acting out of emotions.”