Book Of Genius Quotes
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Improvement
makes straight roads; but the crooked roads
without improvement
are the roads of genius. -
William Blake
To
confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own
light. - Carl Jung
Beauty is
the gift of God. - Aristotle
By our own spirits we are
defied;
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof
comes in the end despondency and madness. - William Wadsworth
Life is a train of moods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are victorious
plan effectively and change decisively.
They are like a great river
that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. - Sun Tzu
No great genius has ever existed without some touch
of madness. - Aristotle
What shocks the
virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet. - John
Keats
By thy cold breast and serpent smile,
By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,
By that most seeming virtuous eye,
By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;
By the perfection of thine art
Which pass'd for human thine own heart;
By thy delight in others' pain,
And by thy brotherhood of Cain,
I call upon thee! and compel
Thyself to be thy proper Hell! - Lord Byron
The average human
looks
without seeing, listens without hearing,
touches without feeling,
eats without tasting,
moves without physical awareness,
inhales
without awareness of odour or fragrance,
and talks without
thinking. - Leonardo da
Vinci
When a true genius
appears in the world,
you may know him by this sign:
that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts . . . - William Shakespeare
I strongly approve of
rational games for
they serve to perfect the art of thinking.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A man of genius makes no
mistakes.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of
discovery. - James Joyce
All human actions have one or more of
these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason,
passion, and desire. -
Aristotle
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all. -
Emily Dickinson
No pessimist ever
discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an
uncharted
land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Adams Keller
God is in the
details. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Defiance is beautiful.
The defiance of power, especially
great or overwhelming power,
exalts and glorifies the rebel. - Edward Abbey
Genius is the ability
to put into effect what is on your mind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of genius is to
carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. - Thomas Henry Huxley
The principal mark of
genius is not perfection
but originality, the opening of new
frontiers. - Arthur Koestler
Genius is nothing but
continued attention. -
Claude Adrien Helvetius
I saw the angel in the
marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelan
