Genius Quotes

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

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

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The reality is Donald Trump's a genius.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

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

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius is initiative on fire.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

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

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.