Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

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.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.