Genius Quotes
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!William Blake
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.Eug? ne Delacroix
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.Douglas Adams
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.William Hazlitt
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert Hubbard
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.Malcolm Cowley
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
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
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
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
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.Cesare Lombroso
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.E. R. Bulwer - Lytton, Last Words (1860)
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.Author Unknown
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
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
