It is preferable to love a genius than to love the masterpieces of a mediocre soul. Mircea Eliade Love Soul
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein Intelligence Famous Courage
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson Heart
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson Mind Learning Thinking
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo Man
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau Nature
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. Heinrich Heine
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. Auguste Rodin Soul
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. George Eliot
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. Eugene Delacroix
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. Mark Twain Books
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. Henry David Thoreau Art Artist
