Top 100 Genius Is Quotes
#1. A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
Tim Minchin
#2. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Ian Fleming
#3. The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#4. When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
Claire McCaskill
#5. First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
#6. I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#7. Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.
Heather Anne Campbell
#8. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso
#9. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
#10. Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
#11. The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
Robin Sharma
#12. Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
Cory Booker
#13. Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard
#15. 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
#17. Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
Amy Vanderbilt
#18. Genius is individual, scenius is communal.
Brian Eno
#19. The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
#21. Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life ...
Adolf Hitler
#22. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
#23. Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
#24. Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity
its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#25. Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
Albert Camus
#26. Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#27. The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Masashi Kishimoto
#28. Skill is in your mind.
Talent is in your heart.
Genius is in your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#30. Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
Bill Vaughan
#32. The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac
#33. It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
#36. Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
Inez Haynes Irwin
#37. From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
John Milton
#38. Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
Theodore Parker
#40. The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed.
Scott Nicholson
#42. Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
#43. High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Cesare Lombroso
#45. A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#46. The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
#47. It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
#48. Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
#50. The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
Clarence Day
#51. There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.
Seneca.
#52. Every genius is at once extraordinary and banal. He is
nothing if he is only one or the other.We must remember this when thinking of rebellion. It has its dandies and its
menials, but it does not recognize its legitimate sons.
Albert Camus
#53. Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#54. Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#55. Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.
Kedar Joshi
#56. The teacher who isn't a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought. But
Thomas Bernhard
#57. Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
#58. Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is - and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
Harlan Coben
#59. The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
Al Seckel
#60. This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
#63. Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
Henry Ford
#64. Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.
Mike Norton
#65. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.
Camille Paglia
#66. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him.
Voltaire
#68. Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#71. If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
Wallace Thurman
#73. Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
Ron Rash
#74. The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
Adolf Hitler
#75. My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
Diane Setterfield
#76. But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)
Malcolm Gladwell
#77. I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives
Henry Ford
#78. The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
Jean Cocteau
#79. [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.
Indro Montanelli
#80. Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
William James
#81. When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Eric Weiner
#82. Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
Mary Abigail Dodge
#87. Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
#90. The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
#91. A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.
Lois Lowry
#95. When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.
Gregory David Roberts
#96. Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#97. As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
#98. A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone
#99. Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections.
Nor Sanavongsay
