Quotes about Genius

66 quotes about Genius

The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that...

The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about genius

The genius is a man in excess.

The genius is a man in excess.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about genius

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about genius

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius about genius

I have nothing to declare except my genuis

I have nothing to declare except my genuis

Quote by Oscar Wilde about genius

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about genius

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the...

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazya

Quote by Albert Einstein about genius

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about genius

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited;...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about genius

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Quote by Charles Babbage about genius

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are...

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

Quote by Francis Bacon about genius

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about genius

Genius is sorrow's child.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Quote by John Adams about genius

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.

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing...

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius

It takes people a long time to learn the difference...

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

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy...

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Quote by Warren Beatty about genius

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about genius

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