Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

The first idea is always the best.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

My genius is in my nostrils.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!