Genius Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe,…

— A. E. Housman

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

— Walter Russell

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking,…

— Elbert Hubbard

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself,…

— Honore de Balzac

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski