Quotes by Genius Genius is full of trash. Herman Melville trash genius Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson initiative genius fire Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. Henry Ward Beecher carts fiery genius Genius is intuition on fire. Holbrook Jackson intuition genius fire If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius. Henry Ward Beecher common-sense genius men Boldness is a crucial element of genius. Horace Freeland Judson crucial elements genius Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. Honore de Balzac flames genius fire The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness genius deeds Agony without genius was gaucherie. Hortense Calisher agony genius suffering Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works. Haruki Murakami screw-ups wall genius Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate. Horace Mann patient genius may One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Horace Walpole genius taste wanted Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Horace Mann common-sense genius common Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow genius inspirational men That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. Horace Walpole lines genius religion Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar. Horace Walpole genius age might Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular! Honore de Balzac genius criticism ideas Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it. Horace adversity genius fortune A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Horace calamity host genius It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. Friedrich Nietzsche talent genius periods «2728293031323334353637»