Awesome Quotes about Genius

January 19, 2015 By IdeaConnection

Albert_Einstein_violinWhat exactly is genius? Psychologists and thinkers still spend many hours trying to pin down this elusive quality and where it comes from. Here are some quotes about genius that may help us get closer to the answers:

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

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

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Ernst. F. Schumacher

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Carl_Sagan_Planetary_SocietyColumbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein

Genius is neither learned nor acquired.
It is knowing without experience.
It is risking without fear of failure.
It is perception without touch.
It is understanding without research.
It is certainty without proof.
It is ability without practice.
It is invention without limitations.
It is imagination without boundaries.
It is creativity without constraints.
It is…extraordinary intelligence!
Patricia Polacco

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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It's true.
Posted by sam on April 7, 2016

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