Genius Quotes - page 6

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. (George Sand)
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. View quote
Elsa Maxwell
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. View quote
George Steiner
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. View quote
George Steiner
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. View quote
Man Ray
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Common sense is the genius of humanity. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. View quote
Horace
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
There is a fine line between insanity and genius. View quote
Dan Brown
Man is a genius when he is dreaming. (Akira Kurosawa)
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. View quote
An Wang