Genius Quotes

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

"Nothing else in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

It used to be that only cheap foreign manual labor was easily available; now cheap foreign genius is easily available

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it ... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Opening your imagination to the ridiculous opens your mind to what you’re not otherwise seeing. In other words, it makes room for the genius to come through.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit, while genius hits a target that no one else can see.

My handwriting was the despair of my teachers. But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.