Genius Quotes

Epictetus, discourses - when you close your doors, and make darkness...
Genius is childhood recaptured.
Bauldlaire
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Gamel abdel nasse - the genius of you americans is that you never...
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Talent does what it can genius does what it must.
Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
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
Carl sagan - but the fact that some geniuses were laughed at...
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fulle
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.
Unknown
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.
Paterculus
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
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams
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
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Hoshang N. Akhta
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
Genius is born - - Not paid.
Oscar Wilde
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
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
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissne
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman