Genius Quotes

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

William James

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Genius is born - - Not paid.

Oscar Wilde

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

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

William Somerset Maugham

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

Seneca

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

Anonymous

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca, Epistles

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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

William Blake

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Samuel Johnson

Genius is perseverence in disguise.

Mike Newlin

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 only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.

Unknown

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

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

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Henry Havelock Ellis

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

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhaue

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Albert Einstein

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

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

Paterculus

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

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton

Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell