Genius Quotes
Common sense is as rare as genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.Michael J. Gel
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.Margaret Fulle
I have nothing to declare but my genius.Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.Ian Fleming
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Josh Billings
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.Robertson Davies
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.Samuel Butle
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?Epictetus, Discourses
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Johann von Goethe
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is nothing but continued attention.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
Genius is of no country.Charles Churchill
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
