Genius Quotes

Elbert hubbard - genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is...
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
Oscar wilde - beauty is a form of genius - - is higher, indeed,...
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
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.
Max Gluckman
Carl sagan - but the fact that some geniuses were laughed at...
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.
Epictetus
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Author Unknown
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butle
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhaue
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
Genius is born - - Not paid.
Oscar Wilde
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasse
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Epictetus, Discourses
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
John Henry Newman
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James