Best genius & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”

Writing Self Realizing Novel Wonderful Genius Decades Jealous Self Absorbed Being Jealous

Author:Louise Penny

“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Years Self Genius Thousand Limits Twelve Self Control Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm Frick

“The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”

Humans Self Whole Action Human Beings Love Is Class Principles Self Love Genius Sensitive

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.”

Humans Long Two Self Facts Action Community Genius Treated Impulse Feminine Nonviolence Masculine Assertion Indivisible Masculine And Feminine Androgynous

Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.”

Self Genius Please Intention Unconscious Inconsiderate

Book:The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures

Source: The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”

“If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?”

Ifs Self Body Happiness Faces Arms Genius Shoulders Admire Shade Yellow Household I Am Lonely Buttocks

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”

“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”

Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.”

Mind Self Lying Genius Strategy Mastery Self Control Self Mastery Fluidity True Genius Presence Of Mind

Author:Robert Greene

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

People Different Self Bigs Lying Interest Ability Business Return Genius Discovery Capitalism Innovation Responsible Incredibles Financial Driven Pursuit Broads Self Interest

Author:Bill Gates

“It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century.”

Important Self Might Dies My Own Destiny Streets Century Genius Illness Accidents Convinced Self Confidence Mood Certainty Remembered Meaning Of Life Spite Thinker Famous Writers

Author:Colin Wilson

“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.”

Ifs Kind Littles Art Different Self Jobs Artist Study Baby Genius Picks Works Of Art Nuts Great Work Good Art Self Absorbed Good Artist

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers

“Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.”

Men Self Hands Found Stars Brain Genius Discipline Normal Average Productions Nonsense Application Self Discipline Successors

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.”

Men Self Perfect Wife Genius Husband Comfortable Worship Conscious Angel Pet Offended Self Conscious Easily Offended Perfect Husband

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.”

World Self Turns Ability Genius Blind Evident Ability To See

Author:Kedar Joshi

“A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

Made Self Teacher Genius Pupils Self Made

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”

Way Wells Self Action Order Interest Youth Genius Conviction Servant Merit Gratification Self Interest Latent Emulation

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”

Knows Men Doe Self Age Literature Community Masters Genius Fellows Historical Birthday Self Knowledge Fellow Man Prominent

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.”

Self Evil Genius Stupidity Evil Genius

Author:David Farland

“Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.”

Men Self Genius Cost Gains Incredibles Obvious Tricks Fraud Spheres Entering Payment Facility Pretense Parody

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.”

People Way Trying Years Humans Soul Self Hands Speak Language Human Beings Cutting Birth Genius Understood Wings Tiny Temper New Ways Stamps Particles Polish Inner Self Fiery Year One

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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