Quotes on Genius

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, _x000D_ is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

There's a genius in all of us.

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.