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Genius Quotes


"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the"

Full 'James Joyce' Quote   Source: James Joyce
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Full 'Horace' Quote   Source: Horace
"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."

Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote   Source: Otto Weininger
"more recognized and respected than a genius who doesn't appear on the..."

Full 'Miles Davis' Quote   Source: Miles Davis
"'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued..."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"together in the dark -- that is critical genius...."

Full 'Billy Wilder' Quote   Source: Billy Wilder
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the..."

Full 'Emile M Cioran' Quote   Source: Emile M Cioran
"understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and..."

Full 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' Quote   Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it..."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are..."

Full 'Joseph Addison' Quote   Source: Joseph Addison
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who..."

Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote   Source: Carl Sagan
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent..."

Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote   Source: Louisa May Alcott
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and"

Full 'Joshua Reynolds' Quote   Source: Joshua Reynolds
"Creativity and genius don't know nothing about age; either you got it or..."

Full 'Miles Davis' Quote   Source: Miles Davis
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

Full 'Orson Welles' Quote   Source: Orson Welles
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."

Full 'Robertson Davies' Quote   Source: Robertson Davies
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not..."

Full 'Peter Nivio Zarlenga' Quote   Source: Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround..."

Full 'David Ogilvy' Quote   Source: David Ogilvy
"to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots...."

Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote   Source: Mikhail Bakunin
"Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious"

Full 'Mary Austin' Quote   Source: Mary Austin
"Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an"

Full 'William James' Quote   Source: William James
"Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent..."

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Full 'Joseph Joubert' Quote   Source: Joseph Joubert
"Genius is a child up to the age of ten."

Full 'Aldous Huxley' Quote   Source: Aldous Huxley
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it"

Full 'Dame Margot Fonteyn' Quote   Source: Dame Margot Fonteyn
"Genius is eternal patience"

Full 'Michelangelo' Quote   Source: Michelangelo
"Genius is immediate, but talent takes time."

Full 'Janet Flanner' Quote   Source: Janet Flanner
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Full 'Thomas Edison' Quote   Source: Thomas Edison
"Genius is talent provided with ideals."

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things..."

Full 'Joseph Joubert' Quote   Source: Joseph Joubert
"Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one,..."

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"Genius is the highest morality, and, therefore, is everyone's duty."

Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote   Source: Otto Weininger
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Full 'Benjamin Franklin' Quote   Source: Benjamin Franklin
"Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly..."

Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote   Source: Charles Caleb Colton
"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as"

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius."

Full 'Claude Bernard' Quote   Source: Claude Bernard
"The dread of censure is the death of genius...."

Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote   Source: William Gilmore Simms
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no"

Full 'Whistler' Quote   Source: Whistler
"I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect..."

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak"

Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote   Source: Vladimir Nabokov
"there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability..."

Full 'Theodor Reik' Quote   Source: Theodor Reik
"roads without improvement are roads of genius...."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things..."

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous."

Full 'Robert Ingersoll' Quote   Source: Robert Ingersoll
"Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at..."

Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote   Source: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"It doesn't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep."

Full 'Will Rogers' Quote   Source: Will Rogers
"It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to"

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young..."

Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote   Source: Louisa May Alcott
"I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at..."

Full 'Clint Eastwood' Quote   Source: Clint Eastwood
"believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force...."

Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote   Source: Gustav Flaubert
"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high..."

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

Full 'Leonardo Davinci' Quote   Source: Leonardo Davinci
"nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the..."

Full 'Mozart' Quote   Source: Mozart
"gives talent; work transforms talent into genius...."

Full 'Anna Pavlova' Quote   Source: Anna Pavlova
"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy."

Full 'Man Ray' Quote   Source: Man Ray
"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its"

Full 'John W Foster' Quote   Source: John W Foster
"Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"looked at radio and saw a gadget; his genius lay in his capacity to look at..."

Full 'Nelson A Rockefeller' Quote   Source: Nelson A Rockefeller
"if I do anything, they'll think I'm a genius.' I was always a bit of a..."

Full 'Rene Russo' Quote   Source: Rene Russo
"Shakespeare, by his colossal genius belongs to the universe, and a French,..."

Full 'Sarah Bernhardt' Quote   Source: Sarah Bernhardt
"of experience and the last effort of genius...."

Full 'George Sand' Quote   Source: George Sand
"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Full 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning' Quote   Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain..."

Full 'Georg C. Lichtenberg' Quote   Source: Georg C. Lichtenberg
"there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that..."

Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote   Source: Carl Gustav Jung
"Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy.. If something..."

Full 'Florence King' Quote   Source: Florence King
"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

Full 'Bern Williams' Quote   Source: Bern Williams
"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a"

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be..."

Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote   Source: Louisa May Alcott
"The age does not create the genius it requires. The genius is not the..."

Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote   Source: Otto Weininger
"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully fostered by the..."

Full 'Ezra Pound' Quote   Source: Ezra Pound
"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."

Full 'Otto Weininger' Quote   Source: Otto Weininger
"The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued"

Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote   Source: Charles Caleb Colton
"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence...."

Full 'Dorothy Thompson' Quote   Source: Dorothy Thompson
"The lucky person passes for a genius."

Full 'Euripides' Quote   Source: Euripides
"The real genius for love lies not in getting into, but getting out of love"

Full 'George Moore' Quote   Source: George Moore
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,..."

Full 'Aldous Huxley' Quote   Source: Aldous Huxley
"The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and..."

Full 'Robert Southey' Quote   Source: Robert Southey
"There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote   Source: Oscar Levant
"There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote   Source: Oscar Levant
"mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius...."

Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote   Source: Walt Whitman
"correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating..."

Full 'William R. Alger' Quote   Source: William R. Alger
"-- ah, that's proof of pure political genius...."

Full 'Richard J Needham' Quote   Source: Richard J Needham
"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a"

Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote   Source: Charles Caleb Colton
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous,"

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty"

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us"

Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote   Source: Oscar Levant
"dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us."

Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote   Source: Paul Eldridge
"parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much..."

Full 'Louisa May Alcott' Quote   Source: Louisa May Alcott