Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Georgette Heyer

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Herman Melville

Genius is full of trash.

Henry David Thoreau

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Jake Shimabukuro

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Isaac Disraeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Evgeny Morozov

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Henry Louis Gates

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Jacqueline Carey

Genius requires an audience.

Jack Vance

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My genius is in my nostrils.

Franz Grillparzer

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Jeremy Clarkson

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part

Anna Jameson

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

We lost a genius and we lost my brother, ... You've lost a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.

Aretha Franklin

with all the other geniuses. I was mesmerized when I heard him live.

To see things in the seed is genius.