Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Genius is initiative on fire.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.