Quotes on genius
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Billings, Josh
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Fuller, Buckminster
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Sinkler, Rebecca Pepper
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Sagan, Carl
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
White, E. B.
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Unknown, Author
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
Shaw, George Bernard
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Beerbohm, Max
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Brooks, Phillips
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.
Schumacker, E.F.