Exception Quote by Vissarion Belinsky

“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

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

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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

— Anonymous

“If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when…

— Dean Koontz

Philosopher: A masochistic fool who will be considered a genius once dead.

— Nikhil Saluja

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

— Samuel Butler

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

“if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to startle the…

— Lev Shestov

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

— Clarence Darrow

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming…

— Joseph Frank