Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R Buckminster Fuller

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac D’Israeli

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Calvin Coolidge

Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Schumann

Dandyism is a variety of genius.
William Hazlitt

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Aristotle

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen

Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

Genius and its rewards are briefly told:
A liberal nature and a niggard doom,
A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.
John Forster

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity
Johann Lavater

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton

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