1,271 Quotes About Genius

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

Most of the people who are striving to be great often compare the demands of their goal with those of that of people who are striving to remain average.

Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.