Quotes About Genius

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

Each man's soul is his genius.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.