Genius Quotes

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.

Alexander Hamilton

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Jean Baudrillard

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

William Hazlitt

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Mark Twain

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden

My genius is in my nostrils.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.

Anon.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

William James

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

David Hume

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World a

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Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Arthur Schopenhauer