Genius Quote by Lord Essex

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

— Samuel Butler

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

— Steve Fowler

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in…

— Samuel Smiles

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.”

— Wilkie Collins

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Since when was genius found respectable?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— Cesare Lombroso

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

— Karen Armstrong

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

— Kelly Miller

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson