Genius Quotes

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Bauldlaire

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.

Unknown

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

Cicero

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

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

William James

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Adolf Hitle

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

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

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

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

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

Larry Leissne

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Edgar Lee Masters

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".

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

Author Unknown

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

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

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

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

Good sense travels on the well - worn paths genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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)

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

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Albert Einstein

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

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