Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Genius is nourished from within and without. 45 Willmott.

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. Thoreau.

Genius is religious. Emerson.

Genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.

Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. Goethe.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the 50 miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Coleridge.

Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. Carlyle.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Simms.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Schopenhauer.