Quotes about Genius
Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
His genius was belowThe skill of ev'ry common beau;Who, tho' he cannot spell, is wiseEnough to read a lady's eyes;And will each accidental glanceInterpret for a kind advance.Swift'sMiscell.
— Samuel Johnson
It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.
— Samuel Johnson
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
— Oscar Wilde
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
— Lewis Carroll
It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
— Simon Sinek
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
— John Lennon
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
— George Eliot
In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.
— Edmund Burke