Genius Quotes

• “The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.” Anna Garlin Spencer

• “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Bruce Feirstein

• “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” Oscar Levant

• “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein

• “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” Albert Einstein

• “In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.” Robert G. Ingersoll

• “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Thomas Alva Edison

• “Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” William James

• “The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.” Dorothy Thompson

• “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.” Elbert Hubbard

• “Since when was genius found respectable?” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein

• “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. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.” Alexander Hamilton

• “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” Fulton J. Sheen

• “Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.” Georg C. Lichtenberg

• “We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.” Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire

• “The word “genius” isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” Joe Theisman