Genius Quotes
+30There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Seneca
+30Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
- Anonymous
+28Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
+26Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison
+26A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
- Anonymous
+24Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
- Anonymous
+22Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde
+22The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
- Anonymous
+20Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. Sheen
+20The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
- Anonymous
+20I have nothing to declare but my genius.
- Anonymous
+16Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
+16There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Anonymous
+16Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
- Anonymous
+14Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- Anonymous
+12Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Anonymous
+10Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
- Anonymous
+8Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Anonymous
+8The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Anonymous
+6A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
- Washington Irving
+3Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
- J G Ballard
+3In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
+1If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.
- Michelangelo
+1Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- George-Louis de Buffon
+1A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see – and hits it.
- Anonymous
+1Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
- Henry Van Dyke
+1Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
- Walter Russell
+1The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
- William James
+1There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
+1Common sense is as rare as genius, – is the basis of genius.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
- Havelock Ellis
+1He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
+1The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions – which time and mediocrity can solve.
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
+1Genius is perseverance in disguise.
- Mike Newlin
+1I don’t want to be a genius – I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
+1Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
- James Russell
+1Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- William James
+1True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie.
- Puzant Kevork Thomajan
