Quotes on Genius

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.