Genius Quotes
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.An Wang
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F Scott
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
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.Walter Lippmann
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 Cardinal Newman
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)
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
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
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
Genius is perseverence in disguise.Mike Newlin
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
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
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.Benjamin Disraeli
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.Unknown
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
I have nothing to declare but my genius.Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
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 may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
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
