Quotes About Genius

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.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.

Many great scientists and philosophers, among them René Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Thorstein Veblen, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have had similarly strange and solitary personalities.

It's the first time I've really enjoyed dancing. I sometimes even forget I belong to an inferior race. The Twist is the greatest ritual since circumcision—and there you can choose between the genius of two cultures. Myself I prefer the Twist."1

Genius, Layton said, is "the ability—a very rare ability—to see things as they actually are. You are not fooled.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius.

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.