Academic Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

— Robert Breault

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things…

— Benjamin Haydon

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, lovethat is the soul of…

— AB

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

— Albert Einstein

Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is…

— Frank X. Barron

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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier