Genius Quotes - page 5

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. (William James)
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup.”. View quote
Louis C.K.
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all). View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? View quote
Leó Szilárd
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. View quote
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
Andy Warhol is the only genius with an IQ of 60. View quote
Gore Vidal
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. View quote
John Dryden
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. View quote
Edith Sitwell
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. View quote
Pietro Aretino
I have nothing to declare except my genius. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. View quote
William Cowper
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. View quote
Leo Burnett
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. (Charles Péguy)
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. View quote
Alexander Smith
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. View quote
Francis Bacon