Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old genius quotes, genius sayings, and genius proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see — and hits it.unknown
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Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!Bruce Lee
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.Guillermo Del Toro
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.John W. Foster
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frederic Amiel
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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.Kathleen Winsor
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.Aristotle
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Genius is eternal patience.Michelangelo
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.Arthur Rimbaud
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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. Deepak Chopra
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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.Vladimir Nabokov
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.Simone Weil
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
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Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.James McGregor
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The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.Criss Jami
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.Oscar Levant
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Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.Benjamin Franklin
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We all have genius within us, never doubt that fact.Catherine Pulsifer
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce
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Genius is never understood in its own time.Bill Watterson
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.J.C.F. von Schiller
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.Josh Billings
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Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.Fulke Greville
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
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Becoming a genius is not just knowing that it is possible - it is taking action and having genius experiences.Andrei G. Aleinikov
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Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more.Henry Ford
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.Paul Cezanne
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.Leonardo da Vinci
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.Charles Bukowski
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Simone De Beauvoir
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Taste is the common sense of genius.Victor Hugo
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. R. Buckminster Fuller
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Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.Toba Beta
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All geniuses die young.Groucho Marx
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Geniuses have the shortest biographies.Claire Messud
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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.Einstien
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
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See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.Wayne Dyer
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.Aldous Huxley
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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.Charles Bukowski
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.E. B. White
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.Henry Van Dyke
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas A. Edison
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.Albert Einstein
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Arthur Conan Doyle
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The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.Arthur Koestler
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.Arthur Schopenhauer
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.Charles Caleb Colton
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.Edgar Allan Poe
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.Edgar Allan Poe
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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.Elbert Hubbard
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.Elbert Hubbard
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Steady work turns genius to a loom.George Eliot
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.George Steiner
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Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.Henry Ford
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.Joshua Reynolds
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Lord Chesterfield
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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.Michael Dell
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imaginationNassim Nicholas Taleb
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Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.Robert Breault
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.Robert Schumann
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.Shakti Gawain
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.Stendhal
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. Thomas Huxley