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Tag Name "Genius" (2013)

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Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.
Heinrich Heine
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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
William Gilmore Simms
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning it judges, but it is not judgment imagines, but it is not imagination it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
Joseph de Maistre
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
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Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
E. O. Wilson
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
Guillermo del Toro
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
Theodore Parker
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
John Taylor Gatto
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
Joseph Joubert
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Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.
H. L. Mencken
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Genius is intensity of life an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius does not need a special language it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
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Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
Harlan Coben
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Dorothy Parker
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Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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