Genius Quotes

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anonymous

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

Lord Essex

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

Larry Leissne

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

Paterculus

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon