Genius Quotes

75 quotations about Genius
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg · Genius
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln · Genius
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell · Genius
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lund · Genius
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo · Genius
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
Don G. Mitchell · Genius
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov · Genius
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso · Genius
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso · Genius
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound · Genius
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray · Genius
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Genius
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Germaine De Stael · Genius
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan · Genius
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree · Genius
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain · Genius
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Source Unknown · Genius
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
Source Unknown · Genius
The divine egoism hat is genius.
Mary Webb · Genius
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil · Genius
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles · Genius
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde · Genius
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde · Genius
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde · Genius
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Bern Williams · Genius

Authors on Genius

Joey Lauren Adams John Adams Henri Frederic Amiel Louis Aragon Aristotle Jean Baudrillard Simone De Beauvoir Henry Ward Beecher Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Christian Nevell Bovee Elizabeth Barrett Browning Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Thomas Carlyle C. W. Ceran Chao Chang Lydia M. Child Charles Churchill Leonardo Da Vinci Edward Dahlberg