Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


Genius … means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis de Buffon

I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Phillips Brooks

Accept your genius and say what you think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Anonymous

Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Mike Newlin

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
Deepak Chopra

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
J.C.F. von Schiller

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. White

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away; only, at times, its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.
Erik Erikson

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry Leissner

Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.
Anonymous

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butler

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lynd

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