Intelligence Quote by Steven Millhauser

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.…

— Oscar Wilde

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

— Aldous Huxley

“All six of us are geniuses. And the world, as you know, is empty.”

— Yukio Mishima

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.”

— K.A. Laity

“...genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.”

— José Rizal

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

“There is no genius without a touch of madness.”

— Seneca

“When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.”

— Bryant McGill