Quotes on True Genius

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.