Genius Quotes - page 14

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored. (Otto Weininger)
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. View quote
Otto Weininger
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. View quote
Otto Weininger
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. View quote
Otto Weininger
From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. View quote
John Milton
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish. View quote
Joseph Louis Lagrange
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. View quote
Walt Whitman
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Works of genius are the first things in the world. View quote
John Keats
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. View quote
Saul Bellow
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. View quote
Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. View quote
Aristotle
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men. View quote
Gerald Weinberg
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. (Guy de Maupassant)
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. View quote
Albert Einstein
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. View quote
Albert Einstein
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound. View quote
Adam Smith
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein