Quotes to inspire and reflect

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There's a Genius in all of us.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Any 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.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Don't gain the world & lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Angry people are not always wise.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.