Genius Quotes, Quotations & Sayings



The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

Genius! which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Thomas Carlyle

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde

Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
Oliver Goldsmith

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Proverb, Thomas Carlyle

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.
Salvador Dali

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
Dorothy Thompson

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Genius – the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense.
Jason Zebehazy

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions – which time and mediocrity can solve.
Hugh Trevor-Roper

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
Lord Byron

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

Genius is never understood in its own time.
Bill Watterson

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    The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
    Stendhal

    Submitted By Abraham

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