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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- Wilde, Oscar
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Best Quotes about Genius

1.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Picasso, Pablo

2.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Adams, John

3.
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

4.
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

5.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
Hayden, B. R.

6.
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

7.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Erasmus, Desiderius

8.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Child, Lydia M.

9.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Picasso, Pablo

10.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca

11.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Stein, Gertrude

13.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

15.
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
Ceran, C. W.

16.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Samuel Butler

17.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Ray, Man

18.
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.
Delacroix, Eugene

19.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Edison, Thomas A.

20.
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Colton, Charles Caleb

21.
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

23.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Hugo, Victor

25.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

27.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Pound, Ezra

29.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Lund, Robert S.

31.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Nabokov, Vladimir

32.
Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

33.
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
Byron, Lord

34.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Lewes, George Henry

35.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Fuller, Margaret

36.
There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

37.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Weil, Simone

38.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

39.
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Woolf, Virginia

40.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.
Joyce, James

42.
To see things in the seed is genius.
Lao-Tzu

43.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Auden, W. H.

44.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Huxley, Aldous

45.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Beauvoir, Simone De

46.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Wilde, Oscar

47.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Hume, David

48.
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.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

49.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M. Child

50.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Thomajan, Puzant Kevork


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