To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in private heart is true for all men that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
Dorothy Thompson
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James McNeill Whistler
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity
Thomas Henry Huxley
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah Moore
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot