Genius Quote by Mary MacLane

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— John Taylor Gatto

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

— Karen Armstrong

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

— Erica Jong

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

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

— Eoin Colfer

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

— Samuel Butler

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley