top of page
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Genius quotes

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
Explore more quotes by Jonathan Swift

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
bottom of page