Genius Quotes

“The truth is that the greatest artists have been good, healthy, and sane.”

“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”

“Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories, the very best ones see analogies between analogies.”

“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”

“The difficulty is that I am not a man of genius and that my friends are.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”

“There is no doubt that the men of genius are all strangely disordered in their conduct.”

“Chaplin was a genius, an absolute genius. There are no two ways about it.”

“An unrecognized genius is an oxymoron.”

“The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to ask new questions.”

“Shine on you crazy diamond.”

“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.”

“Genius is of no country.”

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a genius. I think a better word for me is 'craftsman.'”

“The 'genius' is the man who is in some way or other in contact with the unconscious.”

“Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.”