(786 quotes found)
“Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.”
Mark Twain
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”
Aristotle
“Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
William James
“Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”
Oscar Wilde
“He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Genius - the ability to produce fantastic amounts of equally fantastic bullshit that all makes perfect sense”
Jason Zebehazy
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does”
Christopher Morley
“If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius”
Larry Leissner
