Genius Quotes

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!"

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

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

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

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius is of no country.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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

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

Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

Genius is personality with two measures of talent.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

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

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.