#genius

Common sense is genius in homespun. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#common sense #genius #homespun #sense

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#genius #only #talent #wants #whatever

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#hope #success #experience

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss ↗

— Heather Brewer

#henry #humor #joss #tacos #vampire

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#humor #humor

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#genius #humor #humor

Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#humor #wrongness #humor

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. ↗

— Robert Henri

#everyone #exists #faculties #few #free

Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him. When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling. ↗

— Jean-FranCois de Saint-Lambert

#imagination

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. ↗

— Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

#heart #love #intelligence