Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John Watson Foster

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
Goethe

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

Inspiration and genius—one and the same.
Victor Hugo

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
Oscar Wilde

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes

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

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignace Jan Paderewski

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
Todd Gitlin

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
Woodrow Wilson

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice Hopkins

Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
George Henry Lewes

Taste is the feminine of genius
Edward Fitzgerald

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Christopher Quill

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
William Blake

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

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