Genius Quotes

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fulle

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Malcolm Cowley

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

Adolf Hitle

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

Boldness in itself is genius.

L. Ron Hubbard

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

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

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhaue

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

Albert Einstein

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

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

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.

William Blake

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

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

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

Author Unknown

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

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

William James

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

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann von Goethe

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Cicero

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

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

Genius is perseverence in disguise.

Mike Newlin

Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

E. R. Bulwer - Lytton, Last Words (1860)

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

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton

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

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

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein