Top 40 Genius Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.”

— Albert Einstein

2. “Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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3. “A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.”

— Abdul Kalam

4. “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

5. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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6. “Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

— Samuel Johnson

7. “Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

— Robert Greene

8. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”

— Thomas A. Edison

9. “Genius sees the answer before the question.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

10. “I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put – I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

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11. “Passion is the genesis of genius.”

— Tony Robbins

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12. “Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.”

— Charles de Gaulle

13. “Execution is the chariot of genius.”

— William Blake

14. “Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

— Atul Gawande

15. “UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

— Dennis Ritchie

16. “Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.”

— Charles Darwin

17. “I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.”

— Salvador Dalí

18. “A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race – and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”

— Ayn Rand

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19. ““Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.””

— Charles Bukowski

20. “You don’t disrupt genius at work.”

— Dylan O'Brien

21. “Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

22. “I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.”

— J. M. W. Turner

23. “Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.”

— Elbert Hubbard

24. “He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

— Douglas Adams

25. “All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

26. “No one respects a talent that is concealed.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

27. “Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.”

— Neville Goddard

28. “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

29. “Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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30. “God is the poetic genius in each of us.”

— William Blake

31. “Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.”

— William Butler Yeats

32. “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”

— Peter Thiel

33. “A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.”

— Jenny Holzer

34. “Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

35. “The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”

— Ada Lovelace

36. “Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

37. “I’m equal part genius, equal part buffoon.”

— Noel Gallagher

38. “For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!”

— Gene Wilder

39. “Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

— William Blake

40. “Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.”

— Brian Tracy