Genius Quotes

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

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

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann von Goethe

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Any 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.

E. F. Schumache

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

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

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca, Epistles

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.

William Blake

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.

Author Unknown

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Hannah More

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Anonymous

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald