Consent Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

— Samuel Butler

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

— Aleister Crowley

genius accepts genius unconditionally

— Dan Brown

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

— Elbert Hubbard

“geniuses think they’re not bound by the rules of common people.”

— Elif Shafak

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

— Kate Zambreno

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

— Donald Miller

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart.

— Juliette Drouet