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The Genius

«Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving»
Author: Frank Rooney | About: Immortality | Keywords: stopped, The Genius
«A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.»
Author: Max Gluckman | About: Science | Keywords: reached, The Fool, The Genius
«It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans»
«Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,»
«Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.»
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
«A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.»
«I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.»
«Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Value | Keywords: Einstein, Hiroshima, The Genius

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