innate brilliance Quotes

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

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.