G Quotes
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“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.”
“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds”
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
“Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.”
“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Genius must be born, it can't be taught.”
“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.”
Source: the conqueror
“Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Genius never desires what does not exist.”
“Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.”
“Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.”
Source: The Lives of the Most Prominent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works
“Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.”
“Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.”
“Genius of the head won't do any good to the world if there is no love - what's needed is genius of the heart.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.”
Source: The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.”
Source: The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
“Genius points the way, talent takes it.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Genius requires an audience.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.”
“Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.”
“Genius sees the answer before the question.”
“Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.”
“Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.”
“Genius speaks only to genius.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.”
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.”
“Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.”
“Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.”
Source: Tales
“Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”
“Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane
“Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.”
Source: Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons
“Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.”
“Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.”
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts
“Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.”
“Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.”
“Genius, like gold and precious stones,
is chiefly prized because of its rarity.”
“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”
Source: Table talk
“Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.”
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
“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.”
Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
“Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.”
“Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.”
Source: Killosophy