Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

George Santayana

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Jasper Carrott

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

George Eliot

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...

George Eliot

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Steven Levy

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Robert Browning

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Robert Browning

Talent should minister to genius.

Richard Aldington

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

Martin Luther

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Nancy Allen

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Missy Elliot

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Pharrell Williams

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Edward Dahlberg

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

James Russell Lowell

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

James Russell Lowell

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Leslie Stephen

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

John Ciardi

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The guy was a certifiable genius. Not quite. He was a genius.

Matthew Arnold

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Maxim Gorky

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Max Beerbohm

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Orson Welles

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Orson Welles

I never said I was a genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Jo Brand

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.