Genius Quotes and Sayings

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Genius is of no country.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

A genius can’t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Genius is only great patience.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Inspiration and genius…..one and the same.

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.