Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.
Murray D. Edwards

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
V. S. Pritchett

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Robertson Davies

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles Peguy

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm

Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.
Levy’s Eighth Law

A genius! For thirty-seven years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
Pablo Sarasate

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
C. Holman

There’s a Genius in all of us.
Albert Einstein

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D’Israeli

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
Isaac D’Israeli

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson Davies

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    The educated like the uneducated are a dime a dozen,
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