Genius Quotes

“Genius has no sex”

— Germaine de Stael

Donna Tartt is a genius.

— Fiona Barton

Genius Borrows nobly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are geniuses.

— Kristin Cashore

Intelligence and genius

— Albert Einstein

Genius is born-not paid

— Oscar Wilde

John Waters is a genius.

— Stephen Malkmus

Genius is full of trash.

— Herman Melville

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

— Albert Einstein

Wondering is the seed of genius William Mocca

— William Mocca

“The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

— Horace Freeland Judson

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

— Sebastian Coe

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.

— Paul Rudd

I think Joss Whedon is a genius.

— Julie Plec

Necessity is the spur of genius.

— Honore de Balzac

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

— Jon Brion

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

— Joseph Joubert

“Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

— Anonymous

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

— Thomas Huxley

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

— Horace Mann

“illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.”

— Sean Patrick

“Genius doesn't specialize; genius is reason it itself.”

— Haruki Murakami

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence…

— Douglas Adams

I don't feel like there's any artists in the game that have been as creative as Missy Elliott. I feel like she's…

— Trina

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me…

— Edward B. Burger

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

— Piet Mondrian

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different…

— Charles Saatchi

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the…

— Marc Andreessen

While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an…

— Michael Dirda

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A great tactician creates plans. A good tactician recognizes the soundness of a plan presented on him. A fair tactician must see…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

“Genius loci cannot be designed to order. It has to evolve, to be allowed to hapen, to grow and change from the…

— Edward Relph

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes…

— Anonymous

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this…

— Cornel West

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other…

— Knut Hamsun

“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and…

— Robert Musil

“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He…

— Walter Isaacson