Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since when was genius found respectable?
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.