Quotes about Genius

"Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. "
-- Albert Einstein

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

"There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity."
-- Aristotle

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

"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
-- C. W. Ceran

"Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof."
-- Chao Chang

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
-- Ezra Pound

"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
-- Germaine De Stael

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
-- Gertrude Stein

"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
-- Goethe

"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius."
-- Isaac DIsraeli

"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
-- Joey Lauren Adams

"Genius is sorrow's child."
-- John Adams

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."
-- Lord Essex

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

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
-- Oscar Wilde

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
-- Oscar Wilde

"True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius."
-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

"Accept your genius and say what you think."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest genius is the most indebted person."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
-- Robert S. Lund

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius."
-- William Crashaw

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
-- Winston Churchill