A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see – and hits it.
Author Unknown

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. White

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
J.C.F. von Schiller

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Phillips Brooks

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old – old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Genius is sorrow’s child.
John Adams

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

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.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
Samuel Taylor

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lynd

Any 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.
Albert Einstein

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
J.C.F. von Schiller

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis de Buffon

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

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James McNeill Whistler