Genius Quotes

  • "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
  • "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
  • "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
  • "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
  • "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
  • "He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
  • "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
  • "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
  • "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
  • "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
  • "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
  • "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."
  • "Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."
  • "So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
  • "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."
  • "It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."
  • "The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency."
  • "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
  • "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
  • "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
  • "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."
  • "There is no genius free from some tincture of madness."
  • "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
  • "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
  • "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."