Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Akira Kurosawa

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

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo

The lucky person passes for a genius.
Euripides

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius–the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac D’Israeli

Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place… is called genius.
Craig Bruce

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A genius can’t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant H. McGill

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.
Edmond Duranty

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Bierce

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
John Ciardi

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret Fuller

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and a lot of courage–to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein, E. F. Schumacker

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

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

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Bern Williams

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Don’t bother about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust in hard work, perseverance, and determination. And the best motto for the long march is: “Don’t grumble. Plug on!”
Frederick Treves

I don’t want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus