Genius quotes

Genius quotes by Albert Einstein

Also about
Jokes, Stupidity, Intellect
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
I have nothing to declare except my genius. Oscar Wilde

Genius quotes by George Eliot

Also about
Sexism, Discipline
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. Abraham Linkoln
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Search)
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care. John Lennon
(also about
Childhood, Egoism, Memories)
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison
(also about
Talent, Labor)
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Aristotle
(also about
Insanity)

Genius quotes by Victor Hugo

Genius: the superhuman in man. The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. Simone de Beauvoir
(also about
Women, Sexism)
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. Olivier Martinez
(also about
Professionalism, Actors, Originality)
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Francis Bacon
(also about
Wisdom, Nation, Wit, Originality)
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
(also about
Work, Passion, Vocation)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(also about
Love)
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. Joanne Rowling
(also about
Books, Intellect, Foolishness, Personality)
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not. Joseph Schumpeter
(also about
Professionalism, Talent, Originality)

Genius quotes by Ian Fleming

Also about
Success, Insanity, Mania
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
(also about
Simplicity)
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman
(also about
Nation, Society, People, America)
Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. Allen Ginsberg
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Truman Capote
(also about
Alcohol, Drugs, Homosexuality, Addiction, Confessions)

Genius quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also about
Creativity, Accomplishment
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats
(also about
Talent)
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Inspiration, Books, Judgement)
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino
(also about
Winter, Seasons)