#genius

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#capacity #definition #genius #geniuses #infinite

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conviction #courage #determination #entail #genius

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence! ↗

— Patricia Polacco

#experience

When you come across with the ideas that you don’t like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#freedom

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius. ↗

— Wazim Shaw

#genius #inspiration #intelligence #motivation #inspirational

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

#clever #comprehend #comprehension #content #contentment

Maugham's success, in fact, lies a good deal less in what he positively does than in what he discreetly leaves undone. He gets the colors of life into his Charles Strickland, not by playing a powerful beam of light upon him, but by leaving him a bit out of focus--by constantly insisting, in the midst of every discussion of him, upon his pervasive mystery--in brief, by craftily making him appear, not as a commonplace, simple and completely understandable man, but as the half comprehended enigma that every genuine man of genius seems to all of us when we meet him in real life. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#geniuses #life

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#genius #genius-separateness #love #love