Top genius Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of genius quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of T. Boone Pickens
A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!
- T. Boone Pickens
Collection: Genius
Image of T. Boone Pickens
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.
- T. Boone Pickens
Collection: Genius
Image of Berkeley Breathed
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
- Berkeley Breathed
Collection: Genius
Image of Claire Messud
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Claire Messud
Collection: Genius
Image of Abel Stevens
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.
- Abel Stevens
Collection: Genius
Image of Abel Stevens
Genius is clairvoyant.
- Abel Stevens
Collection: Genius
Image of Abel Stevens
Genius can never despise labour.
- Abel Stevens
Collection: Genius
Image of Henry Wilson Allen
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
- Henry Wilson Allen
Collection: Genius
Image of Max Beerbohm
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
- Max Beerbohm
Collection: Genius
Image of Thomas Love Peacock
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Collection: Genius
Image of Dawn Powell
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
- Dawn Powell
Collection: Genius
Image of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beauty like hers is genius.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Collection: Genius
Image of William Irwin Thompson
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
- William Irwin Thompson
Collection: Genius
Image of Tim Minchin
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
- Tim Minchin
Collection: Genius
Image of Juana Inés de la Cruz
Rare is he who will concede genius.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
Collection: Genius
Image of Juana Inés de la Cruz
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
Collection: Genius
Image of Michael Stuhlbarg
I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.
- Michael Stuhlbarg
Collection: Genius
Image of Frank Portman
Sam Hellerman is a genius!
- Frank Portman
Collection: Genius
Image of Stanisław I Leszczyński
Genius speaks only to genius.
- Stanisław I Leszczyński
Collection: Genius
Image of Steve Aylett
A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
- Steve Aylett
Collection: Genius
Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Genius sees the answer before the question.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Collection: Genius
Image of Evgeny Morozov
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
- Evgeny Morozov
Collection: Genius
Image of Erich Segal
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
- Erich Segal
Collection: Genius
Image of Vladimir Nabokov
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Collection: Genius
Image of Igor Stravinsky
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
- Igor Stravinsky
Collection: Genius
Image of Thomas Gainsborough
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away
- Thomas Gainsborough
Collection: Genius
Image of Zinedine Zidane
If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
- Zinedine Zidane
Collection: Genius
Image of Joseph Haydn
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
- Joseph Haydn
Collection: Genius
Image of Mia Michaels
In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.
- Mia Michaels
Collection: Genius
Image of Lois McMaster Bujold
All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Collection: Genius
Image of Jan Morris
The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.
- Jan Morris
Collection: Genius
Image of Jeremy Clarkson
Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Collection: Genius
Image of Jim Croce
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.
- Jim Croce
Collection: Genius
Image of Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Collection: Genius
Image of Benjamin Haydon
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
- Benjamin Haydon
Collection: Genius
Image of Benjamin Haydon
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
- Benjamin Haydon
Collection: Genius
Image of Jean-Philippe Rameau
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
Collection: Genius
Image of Ada Lovelace
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
- Ada Lovelace
Collection: Genius
Image of Cesare Lombroso
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
- Cesare Lombroso
Collection: Genius
Image of Henry Thomas Buckle
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
- Henry Thomas Buckle
Collection: Genius
Image of Ernst Gombrich
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
- Ernst Gombrich
Collection: Genius
Image of John Denham
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- John Denham
Collection: Genius
Image of Arsene Houssaye
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?
- Arsene Houssaye
Collection: Genius
Image of Thelonious Monk
Everyone is a genius at being themselves
- Thelonious Monk
Collection: Genius
Image of Thelonious Monk
A genius is the one most like himself.
- Thelonious Monk
Collection: Genius
Image of Richard Aldington
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
- Richard Aldington
Collection: Genius
Image of Irving Layton
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
- Irving Layton
Collection: Genius
Image of Henry Theodore Tuckerman
National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Collection: Genius
Image of Horace Freeland Judson
Boldness is a crucial element of genius.
- Horace Freeland Judson
Collection: Genius