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But genius looks forward. The eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Quote by -Aldous Huxley
"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
Quote by -Allen Ginsberg
"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."
Quote by -Matthew Arnold
"There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do."
Quote by -Orison Swett Marden
"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
Quote by -Joseph Joubert
"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal"
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell"
Quote by -Simone Weil
"The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor"
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
Quote by -David Hume
"People are always asking that a person should be perfect. Wayne is a genius as a player - he has everything - and he also has a temperament. But you can't ask people to be perfect."
Quote by -Sven Eriksson
"Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous."
Quote by -Max Beerbohm
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Quote by -Alice Walker
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us, our natural appreciation of kindness
Quote by -Dalai Lama
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
Quote by -Aristotle
“I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Quote by -Charlie Chaplin
“Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Quote by -Charlie Chaplin
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson