Home » Genius Genius 1 Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo Man, Genius, Superhuman Add to Collection 2 The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo Man, Ideas, Genius Add to Collection 3 Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. Victor Hugo Genius, Infinite, Out Add to Collection 4 Taste is the common sense of genius. Victor Hugo Genius, Common Sense, Common Add to Collection 5 There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Victor Hugo Mountain, Genius, Easy Add to Collection 6 Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James Genius, Way, Little Add to Collection 7 Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats Unity, Talent, Genius Add to Collection 8 Genius is patience. Isaac Newton Patience, Genius Add to Collection 9 Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge. Wayne Dyer Life, Genius, Rules Add to Collection 10 Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is. Wayne Dyer Genius, Potential, Moments Add to Collection 11 There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman Power, Genius, Person Add to Collection 12 The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman Best, Genius, People Add to Collection 13 Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer Intelligence, Talent, Genius Add to Collection 14 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde Intelligence, Genius, Public Add to Collection 15 The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde Life, Talent, Genius Add to Collection 16 A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde Genius, Nothing, Declare Add to Collection 17 Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. Oscar Wilde Genius, Tribute, Paid Add to Collection 18 I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. Abraham Lincoln Path, Genius, Beaten Add to Collection 19 Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard Stupidity, Genius, May Add to Collection 20 True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill Information, Genius, True Add to Collection