Genius Quotes - page 2

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Gore Vidal)
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Since when was genius found respectable? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius; lift up thy head. View quote
William Blake
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. (Edgard Varèse)
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? View quote
Charles de Lint
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. View quote
William James
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. View quote
William Hazlitt
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Henry David Thoreau)
Every man is a potential genius until he does something. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. View quote
Edward Gibbon