Genius Quotes

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Malcolm Cowley

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

William Hogarth 1697

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804

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.

Carl Sagan

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theisman

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E.B. White

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him

Max Beerbohm
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