| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. |
Pablo Picasso | 1881 – 1973 | |
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. |
Thomas A. Edison | 1847 – 1931 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. |
George-Louis Leclerc | 1707 – 1788 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. |
Carl Sagan | 1934 – 1996 | |
Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue’. |
Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 – 2007 | |
Genius: the ability to prolong one’s childhood. |
H. L. Mencken | 1880 – 1956 | |
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. |
Albert Einstein | 1879 – 1955 | |
He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond. |
W. H. Auden | 1907 – 1973 | |
He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep. |
Sigmund Freud | 1856 – 1939 | On Leonardo da Vinci |
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. |
Alexandre Dumas-fils | 1824 – 1895 |