Top 66 Genius Quotes

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A genius is an extremely smart person who is able to excel in their particular area of knowledge. With that in mind, check out the top 66 genius quotes.

#66 – 60. Genius Quotes

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

65. Inspiration and genius – one and the same. – Victor Hugo

64. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. – Benjamin Disraeli

63. There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

62. Genius is sorrow’s child. – John Adams

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

60. When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

#59 – 50. Genius Quotes

59. Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

58. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. – Arthur Conan Doyle

57. Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. – Wilferd Peterson

56. There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

55. We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

54. An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. – Mary Kay

53. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein

52. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. – Aldous Huxley

51. 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. Schumacher

50. Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. – Woodrow Wilson

#49 – 40. Genius Quotes

49. Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

48. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

47. Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

46. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. – Benjamin Franklin

45. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

44. Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

43. I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.  – Albert Camus

42. All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others. – Robin Sharma

41. Genius is eternal patience. – Michelangelo

40. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. – Aristotle

#39 – 30. Genius Quotes

39. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. – Louisa May Alcott

38. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

37. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Ernst. F. Schumacher

36. What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

35. Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

34. But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. – Carl Sagan

33. Genius is childhood recaptured. – Jean Baudrillard

32. I believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from not a genetic windfall or divine gift. – Sean Patrick

31. Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade. – Benjamin Franklin

30. A man’s ability to stick beyond the endurance point brings him in touch with the mystic genius which bridges the chasm from failure to success. – Dorothea Kopplin

#29 – 20. Genius Quotes

29. Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! – May Sarton

28. Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity. – Chinese Proverb

27. Genius is talent set on fire by courage. – Henry VanDyke

26. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

25. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. – Bulwer-Lytton

24. The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. – Francis Bacon

23. The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

22. 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. – Joseph Addison

21. It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. – Gertrude Stein

20. Since when was genius found respectable? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#19 – 10. Genius Quotes

19. Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. – Louis Leclerc Buffon

18. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. – Joyce Lunel Cary

17. Genius is only great patience. – Buffon

16. That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people; the insistence on small miracles. – President Obama

15. Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

14. Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of brain-power, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life. – Samuel Smiles

13. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

12. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

10. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

#9 – 1. Genius Quotes

9. People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. – S. T. Coleridge

8. There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. – Oscar Levant

7. You might not need to be a money genius to raise one, but there’s no need to rub your bad money habits in your kid’s face. – Beth Kobliner

6. Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

5. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

4. We all have genius within us, never doubt that fact. – Catherine Pulsifer

3. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

2. Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. – Joseph Joubert

1. When defining genius, it’s also important to realize this is a status that is never fully reached. Instead, it is something to aspire to. – I. C. Robledo

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