Accepting Quote by Loren Eiseley

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of…

— Boris Sidis

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

— Anonymous

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his…

— Tom Robbins

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

— Jubal

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

— Eugene Delacroix

The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

— Shania Twain

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said,…

— Walter Isaacson