#genius

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#sorrow #writing #inspirational

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certain #certainty #challenge #challenging #children

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#inspirational

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#character #deep #genius #high #i

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. ↗

— Beck

#beck #emerges #enough #everywhere #formally

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#back #came #cute #enough #genius

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#genius #humanity #inertia #learn #which

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#genius #beauty

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#been #does #ever #genius #me