Genius Quotes

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path."

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

"There's a Genius in all of us."

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor"

"What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another."

"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

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

"Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water."

"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

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

"From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it."

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

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

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life"

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius"