Genius Quotes

Joseph addison - books are the legacies that a great genius leaves...
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.
William Blake
Johann von goethe - whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it....
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Anonymous
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
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William hazlitt - the definition of genius is that it acts...
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butle
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Genius is childhood recaptured.
Bauldlaire
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
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, Discourses
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fulle
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
Anna Garlin Spence
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 is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca, Epistles
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 reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
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)
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
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
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