extraordinary insight Quotes

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very - I don't know if 'eerie' is the word, but remarkable, certainly.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.