Genius Quotes

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wystan Hugh Auden

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)

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

Arthur Schopenhaue

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

Rebecca Pepper Sinkle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson