Genius Quotes

Genius? Well, it seems that anyone who does something outside the box, even if it's just using a fork to eat soup, is today described as a genius.

But true genius is far greater than that. It is not just extraordinary intelligence, but a blend of mad passion, tireless perseverance, and a unique ability to see connections where others see only chaos, or even emptiness.

The essence of this spark that illuminates humanity's paths, and how geniuses themselves expressed this inner flame, is eloquently captured in these very quotes.

Quote by Mark Twain: It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimate...
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by viol...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: g...
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human id...
Quote by Tony Robbins: Passion is the genesis of genius....
Quote by Jonathan Swift: If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractor...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not re...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient wi...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read th...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an id...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Genius has no taste for weaving sand....
Quote by Jonathan Swift: When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts ...
Quote by Thomas A. Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration....
Quote by Voltaire: Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius....
Quote by Albert Einstein: Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the...
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which ...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood....
Quote by William Butler Yeats: Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is ne...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Genius is not a retainer to any emperor....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all tho...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied...
Quote by Henry Van Dyke: Genius is talent set on fire by courage....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child....
Quote by Victor Hugo: His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped....
Quote by Napoleon Hill: Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses....
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no c...
Quote by John Lennon: I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,'...
Quote by Thomas A. Edison: Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work....
Quote by Wayne Dyer: See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carr...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, th...
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable....
Quote by Charles Dickens: Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so ...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I have nothing to declare except my genuis....
Quote by Aristotle: Every great genius has an admixture of madness....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Accept your genius and say what you think....
Quote by Bruce Lee: Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!...
Quote by Groucho Marx: All geniuses die young....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stro...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man c...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you com...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work....
Quote by William Butler Yeats: Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude....
Quote by Victor Hugo: There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet t...
Quote by Wayne Dyer: The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the p...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than th...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it....