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Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.
-Anon.
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Genius is sorrow's child.
-John Adams
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
-Louisa May Alcott
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
-Louis Aragon
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
-Louis Aragon
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
-Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
-Antonin Artaud
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.
-Margot Asquith
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
-W. H. Auden
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Genius is childhood recaptured.
-Jean Baudrillard
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
-Max Beerbohm
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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
-Marguerite Blessington
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Since when was genius found respectable?
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
-Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy -- so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.
-Samuel Butler
Erewhon
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
-Samuel Butler
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Books about Genius
