Genius Quotes
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
- Abraham Lincoln
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein Quote
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Quote
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
- Author Unknown
Great men grow tired of contentedness.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Quote
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote
Every great action is extreme.
- Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quote
However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose.
- Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quote
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wofgang von Goethe Quote
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
- Alexander Hamilton Quote
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
- Bruce Feirstein Quote
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan Quote
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
- Bern Williams Quote
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E.B. White Quote
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant Quote
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ~John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- J.C.F. von Schiller Quote
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
- Phillips Brooks Quote
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
- Max Beerbohm Quote
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
- Buckminster Fuller Quote
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
- Anna Pavlova Quote
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain Quote
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- Jean Rostand Quote
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
- James Russell Lowell Quote
If you are seeking creative ideas,go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inman Quote
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Quote
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
- Robert S. Lynd Quote
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
- Will Henry Quote
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. Sheen Quote
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
- Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
- George Bernard Shaw Quote
When there is an original sound in the world, it wakens a hundred echoes.
- John A. Shedd Quote
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
- Alan Alda
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
- Deepak Chopra Quote
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift Quote
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- E.F. Schumacker Quote
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings Quote
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
- Arthur Koestler Quote
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- George-Louis de Buffon Quote
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
- James McNeill Whistler Quote
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
- Henri Poincare Quote
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
- Charles Caleb Colton Quote
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein Quote
