Top 34 Genius Imagination Quotes
#1. Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#2. A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.
T.F. Hodge
#3. Dream what others do not.
Imagine what others have not.
Do what others will not.
Achieve what others could not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.
Vasilios Karpos
#5. It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.
William H Gass
#6. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#7. Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
Arthur Schopenhauer
#8. Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
Brian Herbert
#9. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#10. Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli
#11. Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.
Rob Brezsny
#12. Imagination is the life force of the genius code.
Sean Patrick
#13. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#15. Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.
Mary Renault
#16. Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#17. You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#18. The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#19. Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#20. how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#22. All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.
Tom McCarthy
#23. The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#25. Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.
Gloria Burgess
#26. Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
#27. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Criss Jami
#28. When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw
#29. I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God's infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God's image.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. Genius is not born. You make yourself a genius by imagination and perspiration.
Debasish Mridha
#31. To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac D'Israeli
#32. The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
Gosta Mittag-Leffler
#33. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#34. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
Thomas B. Macaulay