Genius Quotes

Edith sitwell - eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us...
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
Dwight d. eisenhowe - every gun that is made, every warship launched,...
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
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
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
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)
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius.
Author Unknown
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Eug? ne Delacroix
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
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.
Unknown
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
William Somerset Maugham
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
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
Genius is perseverence in disguise.
Mike Newlin
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Genius is born - - Not paid.
Oscar Wilde
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
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
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head.
William Blake
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