Quotes about genius

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

— Man Ray

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

— Friedrich Schlegel

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Germaine De Stael

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

— Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

— Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

— H. R. Trevor-Roper

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

— Mark Twain

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

— Source Unknown

The divine egoism hat is genius.

— Mary Webb

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

— Simone Weil

Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

— Orson Welles

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

— Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

— Oscar Wilde

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

— Bern Williams

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.

— Virginia Woolf

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world Are the ones who do.

— Apple Computer

Einstein said that genius begins where rules end. He did however help invent nuclear weapons inadvertently and we've plunged toward a new world order since then as a result. One world or none - it seems the path cannot change. I'd go with Robert Frost on taking the path not traveled.

— James Dye

Wondering is the seed of genius

— William Mocca

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. They blossomed; they did not talk about blossoming. They grew; they did not talk about growing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

— George Eliot