Quotes about Genius
All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Genius never desires what does not exist.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
His genius was belowThe skill of ev'ry common beau;Who, tho' he cannot spell, is wiseEnough to read a lady's eyes;And will each accidental glanceInterpret for a kind advance.Swift'sMiscell.
- Samuel Johnson
It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.
- Samuel Johnson
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
- Oscar Wilde
The great artist is the simplifier.
- Vincent Van Gogh
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
- Lewis Carroll
It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
- Simon Sinek