Welcome to my propaganda page.: Words of Genius, Compiled for the Consumption of the Masses

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -Abraham Lincoln

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. -Oscar Wilde

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great intellects are skeptical. -Friedrich Nietzche

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

-John Dryden

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -Jonathan Swift

Talent works, genius creates. -Robert A Schumann

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. -Oscar Wilde

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. -Henry David Thoreau

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. -Edgar Allan Poe

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -Leonardo da Vinci

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. -Arthur Conan Doyle

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. -Robert Green Ingersoll

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

He who seldom speaks, but with one calm well timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. -Johann Kaspar Lavater

Talent may in time be forgiven, but genius, never.

-Lord Byron

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. -Mark Twain

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. -Charlie Chaplin

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

-John Stuart Mill

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. -Victor Hugo

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. -Charles Bukowski

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do -Apple Commercial