Top 100 Quotes About Genius
#1. And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
#2. I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Bill Watterson
#3. Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers - or we will all perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#5. Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
#6. Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.
K.A. Laity
#9. One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
Stendhal
#10. The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
James Mackintosh
#11. There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
R. Kelly
#12. People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
#13. I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius
Grace Hartigan
#14. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.
Tom Robbins
#17. A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
Robert Fanney
#19. The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#20. If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
Madame De Stael
#23. There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
Warren Spahn
#25. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
#26. There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
Dan Brown
#27. Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
Nadine Gordimer
#28. I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
Kate Bush
#29. Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.
Joshua L. Liebman
#31. There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
Peter Drucker
#32. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
#33. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. In the work of a writer of genius, we rediscover our own neglected thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Ian Fleming
#36. The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Lytton Strachey
#38. The "lone genius" myth: An individual with superhuman talents appears out of nowhere at certain points in history, free of influences or precedent, with a direct connection to God or The Muse.
Austin Kleon
#39. Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
#40. Knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. F I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Henry James
#42. How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.
Michaela Angela Davis
#43. Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
Neel Burton
#45. If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
Napoleon Hill
#46. There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
John Green
#48. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Anonymous
#49. When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.
Colin Dickey
#50. I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius
I know it too well to blush behind it.
Thomas Wolfe
#51. I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
Adam Smith
#53. It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#54. There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
Craig Newmark
#55. You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.
Susanna Clarke
#56. We are assumed to be rather hopeless
swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
Elizabeth Berg
#57. If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
Sacha Guitry
#60. There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.
Michael Meade
#61. A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name
Arthur Schopenhauer
#62. Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.
Sally Mann
#63. M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Wit is the genius to perceive and the metaphor to express.' Or
Patricia Cornwell
#65. It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
Joseph Heller
#66. I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.
Hermann Hesse
#67. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
Joseph Addison
#68. An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
Brian Tracy
#69. Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
Sam Kean
#70. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
Wallace D. Wattles
#71. Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Anthony Hope
#72. The family story tells, and it was told true,
of my great-grandfather who begat eight
genius children and bought twelve almost new
grand pianos. He left a considerable estate
when he died.
Anne Sexton
#73. Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
Maximilien De Robespierre
#74. But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
(Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345)
Herman Melville
#75. Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
Tom Robbins
#76. I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.
Kate Zambreno
#77. This death has been sponsored by Pringles, Taco Bell, Toyota, Trojan Condoms, and one evil, fucking genius.
Stephanie Jackson
#78. I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
Waka Flocka Flame
#79. Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert Blair
#80. A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#81. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
Adoniram Judson
#82. I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.
Steve Jobs
#85. One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.
J.M. Barrie
#86. Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal
Jose Rizal
#87. I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.
Lucy Punch
#88. Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
Sarah Lacy
#89. The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.
Cornel West
#90. A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.
Tom Harpur
#91. If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
Henry Ward Beecher
#92. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women 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
#93. Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
John Taylor Gatto
#94. 27. Dogs are geniuses of loyalty. And that is a good kind of genius to have.
Matt Haig
#95. 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
#96. Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#98. This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.
W.H. Davies
#99. I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
Mary MacLane
#100. Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
William Hazlitt
