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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions. Ernest Dimnet
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men. Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. Bertrand Russell
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. Jose Marti
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. T. S. Eliot
The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy. Erica Jong
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told. Emerson
Conceit and presumption have not been any more fatal to the world, than the waste which comes of great men failing in their hearts to recognize how great they are. John Morley
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. Lord Chesterfield
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of god. Euripides
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us footprints on the sand of time. Longfellow
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. George Santayana
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times he is a man. Emerson
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. W. H. Auden
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. Igor Stravinsky
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune. LA Rochefoucauld
It is skill not strength that governs a ship. Thomas Fuller
We measure the excellence of other men by some excellence we conceive to be in ourselves. John Selden
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows and is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic. William Hazlitt
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. Edward Gibbon
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Oliver Wendell Holmes
All excellence is equally difficult. Thornton Wilbur
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. Thomas Carlyle
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. Hans Hofmann
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. Ninette De Valois
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit? Richard Wilbur
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the importance of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. Paul Valery
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable. E. V. Lucas
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Albert Camus
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us. Pindar
He who comes up to his own idea of greatest must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. William Hazlitt
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. Clarence Day
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin. John Dryden
Men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror. Marcel Proust
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. Elbert Hubbard
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. Milton
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Henri Frederic Amiel
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire. Hector Berlioz
Great offices will have great talents. William Cowper
