Genius Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

67 Genius Quotes
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“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.”
Puzant Kevork Thomajan Quotes
“Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.”
John Dryden Quotes
“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.”
Christopher Quill Quotes
“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
“It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
“When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
Albert Camus Quotes
“Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
“Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.”
Goethe Quotes
“No great genius is without an admixture of madness.”
Aristotle Quotes
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes