Genius Quotes

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind
Lord Essex

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in private heart is true for all men that is genius.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817)

Since when was genius found respectable?

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

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Senec

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.
Mozart

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it
Robert R. Toth

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.







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