The Genius Quotes

Never expect any recognition here
the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross. — Franz Grillparzer

If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi

Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found. — Nikola Tesla

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek

Unconditional lovingness, coupled with belieflessness, opens the door to unlimited creative genius. — Maximus Freeman

Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart. — Clemens Brentano

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Me, wincing a little as the effects of the slushie worked its way through him. So? Awesome, right? I'm a genius, you can — Shana Norris

We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises. — Heather K. O'Hara

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. — Pierre Beaumarchais

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Genius had its rewards. — Mario Puzo

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. — Anna Brownell Jameson

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person ... — Michael Meade

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. — Tennessee Williams

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. — Hans Hofmann

Genius is finding the invisible link between things. — Vladimir Nabokov

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well. — Kris Jenner

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. — Mo Rocca

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it. — Robert Ringer

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. — William James

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity — Martin E. Marty

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow. — Jean Houston

How somebody is different?? Not different but genius?? (Find the answer, that's my quiz for you... No, jokers it's to easy with jokers) — Deyth Banger

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius — Michael Vaughan

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean? — James Gleick

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness. — Mike Judge

A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The — Angela Duckworth

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

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

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. — Napoleon Bonaparte

On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

Adversity is the midwife of genius — Napoleon Bonaparte

They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep. — Sarah Ockler

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. — Tony Buzan

He is a perfect genius, god and devil combined, the greatest marvel of the age. — Luo Guanzhong

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic — William Hazlitt

Imagination is the life force of the genius code. — Sean Patrick

The persecution of genius fosters its influence. — Tacitus

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So we show up on her porch out of the blue, kidnap her, feed her frozen fruit and ask her on a date. Genius — Aprilynne Pike

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself. — Sarah Lacy

Genius has as many components as the mind itself. — Stephen Jay Gould

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. — Ouida

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. — Gertrude Atherton

If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. — Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius. — Alan Greenspan

Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble. — Honore De Balzac

Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world? — John Adams

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. — Paul Cezanne

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party — William, Saroyan

Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. — Isaac Stern

in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent), — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. — Charles Dickens

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline. — Henry David Thoreau

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed. — Scott Nicholson

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it. — Scott Borchetta

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. — Dawn Powell

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. — Pope Francis

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. — Phil Gramm

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. — Leigh Hunt

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh. — Chris Dietzel

I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too. — Marissa Meyer

Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it. — Thomas Mann

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone. — Tom Robbins

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. — James Russell Lowell

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. — Margaret Fuller

The source of genius is imagination alone. — Eugene Delacroix

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. — James M. Barrie

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.
So the question is: Have you ever done that? — Seth Godin

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. — Isaac D'Israeli

Inside the mind of 'America's Mad Genius' is not necessarily a place you want to visit. — Mike Caro

The creation of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, crated far out of the reach of observation. — Homer

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson. — Winston S. Churchill

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. — Criss Jami

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. — Billy Wilder

decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius. — Francine Prose

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. — Robert Blair