Genius Quotes

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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

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

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter wher...

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that...

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchest...

Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Pea...

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mis...

For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of im...

Talent works, genius creates.

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direct...

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of nove...

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: ...

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting...

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort...

I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams of childhood trauma—that becoming a...

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by...

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood ha...

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn...

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure ma...

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there ro...

James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for M...

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to c...

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to...

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

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-r...

Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skil...

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a ...

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

The path of genius is free, and its own

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius onl...

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so muc...

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius....

Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot ...

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments o...

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my...

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible...

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great...

I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it t...

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intell...

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to ge...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perh...

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than h...

The unrecognized genius—that’s an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one—the genius re...

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius r...

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.