“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
Albert Einstein
“Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.”
Robert Menzies
“The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies”
“A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.”
George Bernard Shaw
