Genius Quotations | Page 3

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.