Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
Bernard Berenson

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Anonymous

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden

Genius is only great patience.
Anonymous

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill

But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden

Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it.
Robert R. Toth

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C Ceram

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent–the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Thomas Henry Huxley

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

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac Disraeli

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren Adams

What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will.
James Matthew Barrie

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
Madame de Stael

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm (From Zuleika Dobson)

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Edward G. 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