Best stones & genius Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.”

Light Genius Stones Borrowed Precious Stones

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.”

Men Christian Individual Events Depends Genius Stones Absolutes Treasure Certainty Outcomes Misfortunes Abyss Stepping Stones

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.”

Path Genius Stones Sticks Storm Dust Pulling Sticks And Stones Cyclones

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.”

Men Mind Doe Seems Running Secret Race Genius Ambition Stones Horse Nervous Thrown Competitors Brutes Emulate Emulation Racers Thoroughbreds

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.”

Mean Guy Genius Stones South Parks

Author:Brent Spiner

“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

Life Real Motivational Truth Moving Success Genius Victory Stones Accomplish Myth Enthusiasm Charm Sincerity Brutes Contagious Allegory Orpheus

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Effort Mistake Genius Stones Constant Stepping Stones

Book:Great scientists

Source: Great scientists

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”

Poetry Cutting Rocks Genius Stones Cherries Milton Colossus

Author:Samuel Johnson

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