Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old genius quotes, genius sayings, and genius proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
List Of Inspirational Genius Quotes
“This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.”
Deepak Chopra
“A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see — and hits it.”
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“Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!”
Bruce Lee
“Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.”
Guillermo Del Toro
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”
John W. Foster
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Henri-Frederic Amiel
“The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
Kathleen Winsor
“Every great genius has an admixture of madness.”
Aristotle
“Genius is eternal patience.”
Michelangelo
Best Humorous Genius Quotes
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
Arthur Rimbaud
“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“The real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
Simone Weil
“Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.”
Lydia M. Child
“Geniuses don’t become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.”
James McGregor
“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
Criss Jami
“What the world needs are more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.”
Oscar Levant
“Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We all have genius within us, never doubt that fact.”
Catherine Pulsifer
Famous Genius Quotes And Proverbs
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“Genius is never understood in its own time.”
Bill Watterson
“Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Ezra Pound
“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
J.C.F. von Schiller
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
Louis Aragon
“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.”
Josh Billings
“Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.”
Fulke Greville
“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
“Becoming a genius is not just knowing that it is possible – it is taking action and having genius experiences.”
Andrei G. Aleinikov
