Genius Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit…

— Heinrich Heine

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

— William Hazlitt

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer…

— William Gilmore Simms

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it…

— Robert Quillen

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their…

— George Bernard Shaw

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life…

— Scott Barry Kaufman