Genius Quotes

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

There is no genius without a touch of madness.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

To be great is to be misunderstood.