Quotes of: Great-genius Keyword

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Godwin

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Edmund Wilson

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question...

Christopher Dutton

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Criss Jami

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

Chris Lilley

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour.

Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Anouilh

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Eugene Delacroix

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Golan Levin

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Jane Smiley

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

Anna: But, Boris, this is genius. Medical Professor: Really? I thought it was Rachmaninoff. I'm going for a smoke.

Doctor Zhivago

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Taylor Caldwell

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Stephen Vizinczey

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Albert Einstein