Genius Quotes

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. (Ezra Pound)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. View quote
Joseph Addison
Talent works, genius creates. View quote
Robert Schumann
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. View quote
Aristotle
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. View quote
Jonathan Swift
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. View quote
Seneca
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you have closed your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone God is within, and your genius is withinand what need have they of light to see what you are doing. View quote
Epictetus
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. View quote
William Hazlitt
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is childhood recalled at will. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. View quote
Billy Wilder
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. (Joseph Joubert)
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. View quote
Christopher Morley
Genius points the way, talent takes it. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. View quote
Oscar Levant
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. View quote
William Hazlitt