Genius Quotes - page 64

Genius has no taste for weaving sand. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Two sorts of writers possess genius those who think, and those who cause others to think. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest genius is the most indebted person. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The constructive intellect genius produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.... They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead man hopes genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We feed on genius great men exist that there might be greater men. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. View quote
Steve Wozniak
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory. View quote
Martha Graham
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' View quote
Ben Horowitz
I love Slim-Jims so much, I once called their hotline. I swear to God. I told them, "I got your next billion-dollar idea." And the lady on the other end goes, "Oh, do tell." I said, "Alright. Men love beer and Slim-Jims. So, what you need to do, is drill a hole in the middle of that Slim-Jim... so we can suck beer through it and take a bite of Slim Jim! [Audience cheers] Yeah. GENIUS!... She hung up on me. View quote
Bill Engvall
What must be acknowledged is that Kim Jong Il has evinced a genius for propaganda ever since managing the efflorescence of his father's cult in the 1960s. Even so, he cannot cover his lack of charisma completely; it's as if Hitler died and left the Third Reich to Goebbels. (Brian Reynolds Myers)
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate. View quote
John C. Maxwell
Taking on the responsibility of portraying a real person in history, preserving his genius while demonstrating the vulnerable crumbling of his personality, I researched carefully, and gained great respect for the contributions Mr. Hughes shared with the world. View quote
Carson Grant