Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
Kato Kaelin

Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga