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The divine egoism that is genius.
Mary Webb (1881-1927) British author.
The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) British author.
To mediocrity genius is unforgivable.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher, poet.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) English author.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist.
If we are to have genius we must put up with the inconvenience of genius, and that the world will never do; it wants geniuses, but would like them just like other people.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English poet.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist.
The most effective way of shutting our minds against a great man’s ideas is to take them for granted and admit he was great and have done with him.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
Everybody denies I am a genius but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles (1915-1985) American filmmaker.
Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book.
A man who is a genius and doesn’t know it probably isn’t.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist.
Genius is infinite pain staking.
Longfellow.
Genius us nothing but continued attention.
Helvetius.
Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.
Buffoon.
I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
Hogarth.
Genius is but a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direction.
Johnson.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
A man’s genius is always, in the beginning of life, as much unknown to himself as to others; and it is only after frequent trials, attended with success, that he dares think himself equal to those undertaking in which those who have succeeded have fixed the admiration of mankind.
Hume.
The popular notion of genius is of one who can do almost everything except make a living.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Ruskin.
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Colton.
Mary Webb (1881-1927) British author.
The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) British author.
To mediocrity genius is unforgivable.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher, poet.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) English author.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist.
If we are to have genius we must put up with the inconvenience of genius, and that the world will never do; it wants geniuses, but would like them just like other people.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English poet.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist.
The most effective way of shutting our minds against a great man’s ideas is to take them for granted and admit he was great and have done with him.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
Everybody denies I am a genius but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles (1915-1985) American filmmaker.
Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book.
A man who is a genius and doesn’t know it probably isn’t.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist.
Genius is infinite pain staking.
Longfellow.
Genius us nothing but continued attention.
Helvetius.
Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.
Buffoon.
I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
Hogarth.
Genius is but a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direction.
Johnson.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
A man’s genius is always, in the beginning of life, as much unknown to himself as to others; and it is only after frequent trials, attended with success, that he dares think himself equal to those undertaking in which those who have succeeded have fixed the admiration of mankind.
Hume.
The popular notion of genius is of one who can do almost everything except make a living.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Ruskin.
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Colton.
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