Quotes about geniuses and genius

Attributional theories of genius

Attributive theories (from the Latin attributum - sign) of genius reveal its specific properties and differential features, and also establish the features of their relationship and manifestation.

1. Suprematist theory asserts that genius is characterized by phenomenality, extremeness, extreme level of development of abilities, dominance and extraordinary development of one of the qualities or mental processes of the individual.

Table 1. Pentabasis of cognitive processes - the initial signs of genius

Whole Thinking Analysis	Possibility Imagination Fantasy
Absolute Attention Perception
Interaction Memory Association	Freedom Intuition Instinctive feeling

Attention

Cultivate attention every day, meditate on attention and pray for attention. Like a greedy usurer, daily, tirelessly seek, demand from yourself its increase. A person begins with attention, is formed by attention, and is improved by attention. Attention moves thought, nourishes memory, excites imagination. With attention, invention is born and beauty is created. Your attention will lead you to the heights of the divine, to immortality. Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), Italian painter and sculptor

Genius is the patience of thought concentrated in a certain direction. Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727), English physicist, mathematician, mechanic and astronomer

Genius is only continuous attention. Claude Helvétius (January 31, 1715 – December 26, 1771), French writer and materialist philosopher

Genius is only attention. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet, playwright, philosopher, scientist

Attention is the material from which memory is made, and memory is the battery of human genius. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891), American poet, educator, essayist, and diplomat

Genius is the highest ability to concentrate attention on the subject being studied Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 26, 1849 - February 27, 1936), Russian physiologist and psychologist

This is the ability, during the maturation of an idea, to completely ignore everything that is not related to the problem raised. Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934), Spanish physician and histologist

Perception

A genius perceives everything vividly and, if he is not immersed in his thoughts and overwhelmed with delight, then he explores, one might say, without noticing it; he is forced, thanks to the impressions made on him by objects, to continuously enrich himself with knowledge that does not cost him anything; he casts a general glance at nature and penetrates its abysses. Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713—July 31, 1784), French educational philosopher and writer

I let objects calmly act on me, observe after this action and try to convey it correctly and authentically. Here is the whole secret of what they like to call genius. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet, playwright, philosopher and scientist

My habit of seeing and perceiving all things as they are, my constant concern for maintaining clarity of vision, my complete rejection of all pretensions again turn out to be useful to me and make me little by little very happy. Every day - some new, amazing object, every day - fresh, significant, extraordinary paintings; everything together forms a whole that you think and dream about for a long time, never achieving it with your imagination... Johann Wolfgang Goethe

There is nothing special about genius; it is always a universal perception of things, a universal impulse towards a different existence. Nikolai Berdyaev (March 18, 1874 – March 23, 1948), Russian philosopher

Intuition

Whether sooner or later, they will certainly achieve the goal if they strive for it with the confidence that genius or instinct inspires. Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), English philosopher, historian, politician

Brilliant minds reach a goal in one fell swoop that mediocre minds reach after lengthy deliberation. Moses (Moses) Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786), Jewish-German philosopher

The discovery of truth through slow, progressive reflection is a talent; intuitive knowledge of it, not preceded by noticeable reflection, is genius. Johann Caspar Lavater (15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801), Swiss writer, theologian and poet

Genius in any field is intuition. All other wonderful deeds due to talent are lower than this miracle. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850), French writer

A genius knows the world without studying it; he finds beginnings in himself and in his experiences and has the gift of guessing from them and what others develop from them. Friedrich Theodor Fischer (30 June 1807 – 14 September 1887), German philosopher and literary critic and writer

Geniuses clearly and completely feel what everyone feels dimly. Joseph Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 2, 1892), French philosopher and writer, historian of religion

Genius is intuition. Rubén Dario (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), the first internationally famous Latin American poet

Genius is the pinnacle of practical intuition. Jean Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963), French writer, poet, playwright, artist and film director

Imagination

Imagination is the first quality of a genius. Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863), French painter and graphic artist

The imagination of a talented person reproduces what has already been found, the fantasy of a genius reproduces something completely new. The first makes discoveries and confirms them, the second invents and creates. Cesare Lambroso (November 6, 1835 – October 19, 1909), Italian psychiatrist

As I study myself and my way of thinking, I come to the conclusion that the gift of imagination and fantasy meant more to me than any ability for abstract thinking. Dreaming about all the things you could achieve in life is an important element of living a positive life. Let your imagination wander freely and create a world in which you would like to live. Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), theoretical physicist

The main difference between a brilliant inventor and an ordinary “eccentric” is that the genius uses the gift of creative imagination, while the “eccentric” has no idea about it. The inventor-scientist uses both gifts: analytical skills and creative imagination. Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970), American author, journalist, and success psychologist

Geniuses are the imagination, the imaginative creative force. Yakov Emmanuilovich Golosovker (September 4, 1890 - July 20, 1967), Russian and Soviet philosopher and writer

If the creativity of a genius were entirely subsumed in ordinary formal “logic,” we would deprive the genius of his highest prerogative of “insight,” the creation of the new, unprecedented, and thereby annull it. At the same time, we are amazed by the logical power of brilliant thought, unraveling and expressing the mysteries of existence and the paths of history, before which induction suffers the same defeat as deduction. Let me remind you again: genius is imagination. Yakov Emmanuilovich Golosovker

That is why it seems necessary to us to introduce a special term for the form of knowledge common to genius, knowledge that owes entirely to the imagination. This term is enigmatic knowledge, from the Greek word “enigma” (riddle). If we set out to reveal the imagination from its cognitive side, that is, to give an epistemology of imagination or “imaginative epistemology,” we will inevitably come to the problem of the logic of imagination, which in this case will be enigmatic logic. Yakov Emmanuilovich Golosovker

Thinking

Genius lies in the ability to distinguish the difficult from the impossible. Napoleon Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 – May 5, 1821), French emperor, military leader and statesman

The essence of genius is the ability to see the general in the particular and the constant study of facts, the sense of what is truly important. Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860), German philosopher

A great work of art is a painful victory of a brilliant mind over a brilliant imagination. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), British playwright and novelist

It is not some genius who suddenly reveals to me what I want to say or do unexpectedly for others, but my reflection, my contemplation. Paul Valéry (30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945), French poet, essayist and philosopher

The peculiarity of my genius is that it comes from the mind. Exactly from the mind. Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), Spanish painter, sculptor, writer

The ability of the mind to look at life as if from the outside, to reflect on it, to be aware of its own existence and to be critical of the processes occurring in it is undoubtedly the most significant feature of the human genius. The mind has something of a feedback device. Alan Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973), British philosopher, popularizer of Eastern philosophy

Genius is original, productive, problem-solving, and visual thinking. Michael Michalko, American creative thinking expert and author of Thinkertoys

Genius begins with an open mind, not clouded by conventions; he sees everything from a different angle, knows how to deconstruct a problem and put it back together in a better form. Peter Fix, English business consultant, author of the book “Customer Service Genius”.

Experience and memory

Doesn't genius depend on the perfection of living memory? For thanks only to memory, which connects individual events of life into a harmonious whole, a broader and deeper understanding of life is possible than that possessed by ordinary people. Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860), German philosopher

Genius is rooted in the perfection and vitality of memories. Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is memory. Ivan Ivanovich Lapshin (October 11, 1870 - November 17, 1952), Russian philosopher

A genius is so internally rich that any topic, any thought, incident or object evokes in him an inexhaustible stream of associations. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (May 31, 1892 - July 14, 1968), Russian Soviet writer

Attention is the material from which memory is made, and memory is the battery of human genius. Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977), American poet, playwright, and literary critic

A genius is a person who remembers what you all forgot. Neale Donald Walsh (born September 10, 1943), American writer

Holistic combinations of qualities and processes

Breadth of mind, power of imagination and activity of the soul - this is what genius is. Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713—July 31, 1784), French educational philosopher and writer

So, the faculties of the soul, the combination of which (in a certain ratio) constitutes genius, are imagination and reason. Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 - 12 February 1804), German philosopher

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will. Carlo Dossi (27 March 1849 – 19 November 1910), Italian writer and statesman

A selection of inspiring and brilliant quotes from great people

Quotes from great people about life are not just clever phrases, they are a treasure that cannot be bought even for a million. Their value in a person’s life can be compared to the support and help of a best friend.

Probably everyone has had a case when an apt saying of great philosophers, scientists, and writers helped them take a step towards their dream. What is his strength? This is the best that has been accumulated for centuries, collected bit by bit, sifted out and came to us in perfect form.

Aphorisms of great people are our true friends in complex issues and the key to answers at the crossroads.

Sometimes there are moments when you are overcome by difficulties and doubts, and you really want to hear the advice of your elders, since their wise quotes are considered a reliable fact. The statements of great people about happiness and peace on earth are not just short pathetic phrases written to gain universal fame.

This is an authoritative expression that is perceived as truth. Reading them you understand: everything is possible in life, the main thing is not to give up and go towards your dream. They motivate perfectly, make you believe in yourself, and give you strength.

By taking one of the wise sayings of great people as a status note, you can gradually turn it into a life credo and act according to its position. And then everything will turn out as the famous philosopher Omar Khayyam prophesied, it will become accessible as the poet Paulo Coelho promised, and what the preacher Osho said will come true.

Conducting a conversation with people who subtly and aptly quote many sayings of great people about friendship, peace, good and evil, we immediately feel sympathy and respect for them. And if we ourselves, like them, know how to select and beautifully use quotes and aphorisms in life, then naturally we also deserve trust from our interlocutors.

By reading great phrases and being able to apply them well, we assert ourselves and increase our self-esteem. And this is important in order to always be confident, joyful and live happily. The more great quotes about life we find in our speech, the closer we bring ourselves to perfection.

Thanks to the statements of great people about life, we learn the basics of wisdom. They teach us to always move forward, they claim that the key to joy is in our hands, we are the masters of fate and no obstacles should interfere with us if we really want something.

The best quotes from great people have been collected for more than one century, they were written by people living in different eras, but any saying carries the idea that a person is the creator of his own future.

Structural-functional theories of genius

Structural-functional theories are based on the originality and degree of development of individual integral components of personality and, accordingly, the methods and mechanisms of their implementation.

1. Perfectionist theory states that the basis of genius is a passionate desire to improve everything that exists and constant adherence to the highest standards of excellence.

Beginners should always be first in people's minds. But whatever reverence we may have for these first geniuses, their successors often give much more pleasure... We honor the geniuses who created the first sketch of the arts, but we are closer to the minds that perfected those arts. Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (November 21, 1694—May 30, 1778), French enlightenment philosopher, poet and prose writer

A genius much more often uses his powers to organize already existing elements and to give them hitherto unknown strength, expressiveness and power, than to find and create these elements themselves. Henri Joly (December 10, 1839 - June 12, 1925), French philosopher, author of The Psychology of Great Men

2. The intellectualist theory believes that a genius is a person possessing extraordinary intellectual power, exceptional and unusual mental abilities.

A strong mind pursuing practical goals is the best mind on Earth. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet, playwright, philosopher, scientist

...a genius of his own free will approaches the theorist, from whom he expects a shortening of his path and all sorts of ease in his work. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When the soul breathes in a person’s intellect, this is genius... Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), American philosopher and poet

3. The passionary theory states that genius is based on great passions, boundless love for the world, for people, for one’s work, as well as an irresistible desire to know the truth.

Only passions and only great passions can lift the soul to great deeds. Without them, there is an end to everything sublime both in moral life and in creativity. Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713—July 31, 1784), French educational philosopher and writer

Without passions there are no great artists, no great generals, no great ministers, no great poets, no great philosophers. Helvetius (January 31, 1715 – December 26, 1771), French writer and materialist philosopher

The initial and final characteristic of genius is the love of truth and the desire for it. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet, playwright, philosopher, scientist

Humor is one of the primary elements of genius, but as soon as it begins to excel, it is only a surrogate for the latter; it accompanies decadent art, destroys it, and ultimately destroys it. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Neither a high degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together create a genius. Love, love, love, this is the soul of a genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), Austrian composer

Every work of genius is inevitably the result of enthusiasm. Isaac Disraeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848), English critic and writer

The heart is the true lever of all great things. Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827), German composer

Only a person who finds such deep pleasure in his creativity that he works despite all obstacles can be called a genius. Put barriers to these streams: the one that should become a glorious river will be able to overturn them all. Frederic de Stendhal (23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), French writer

What is still an object of thought for talent is already an object of feeling for genius. Ludwig Feuerbach (28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872), German philosopher

Every work of genius is inevitably the result of enthusiasm. Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), English statesman, writer

Nothing great in the world is accomplished without passion. Friedrich Christian Hebbel (March 18, 1813 – December 13, 1863), German playwright

Without passion there is no genius. Theodor Mommsen (November 30, 1817 - November 1, 1903), German historian, author of the work "Roman History"

Great thoughts come not so much from a great mind as from a great feeling. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881), Russian writer and thinker

Love and friendship fertilize genius. Émile-Marie Fayol (14 May 1852 – 27 August 1928), French statesman and military leader

Intelligence is passion. Descartes undoubtedly extracted more joy from life than Casanova. Hamlet lived a more interesting life than the gentleman des Grieux, who tried to devote his entire life to his love for Manon Lescaut and even to playing cards. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), British writer

Passion is like genius: a miracle. Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944), French writer

A person can be great thanks to his feelings, and not just his mind! Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945), American writer

Geniuses are the happiest of mortals, because what they have to do is exactly the same as what they most want to do. Wysten Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), Anglo-American poet

Passion breeds genius. Anthony Robbins (born February 29, 1960), American author, entrepreneur and self-help entrepreneur

4. Theory of performance. This theory states that genius is the result of titanic work, exceptional performance, enormous hard work, immense perseverance and patience, extraordinary determination and phenomenal willpower.

No one works as hard as I do. I don’t think about anything else other than working day and night. Michelangelo Buonarroti (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), Italian painter and sculptor

Great things require tireless persistence. Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (November 21, 1694—May 30, 1778), French enlightenment philosopher, poet and prose writer

I don't know such a thing as a genius. Genius is nothing other than work and diligence. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764), English artist

Genius is nothing other than the gift of enormous patience. Georges-Louis Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788), French naturalist and writer

Geniuses read little, do a lot, and create themselves. Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713—July 31, 1784), French educational philosopher and writer

In my entire life I have never spent even four weeks enjoying myself. It was as if I was constantly dragging a stone up a mountain, which rolled down again and again, and I had to drag it up again. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832), German poet, playwright, philosopher and scientist

People who do quickly what we do slowly are called geniuses. Joseph Joubert (7 May 1754 – 4 May 1824), French writer

It would be a very big mistake to assume that my art was easy. I assure you that hardly anyone has so far worked as hard on studying the laws of composition as I have. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), Austrian composer

I didn’t mind any work, I really wanted to create a great thing for Prague. In general, those who think that my art arises easily are mistaken. I assure you, dear friend, that no one has taken as much pains to study composition as I have. There is hardly a famous master in music whom I have not studied diligently and honestly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Genius is nothing more than endless efficiency. Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795—February 5, 1881), British writer, historian and philosopher Willpower is one of the most important signs of genius, it is its measure. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (June 11, 1811 - June 7, 1848), Russian literary critic Genius depends mainly on energy. Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888), English poet and cultural critic There cannot be a genius without exceptional energy and exceptional ability to work... I knew many people who considered themselves geniuses and were known as such in their environment, but who did not have the ability to work, and in reality they turned out to be only slackers, gifted with eloquence and a talent for creating advertising. Wilhelm Liebknecht (29 March 1826 – 7 August 1900), German politician and revolutionary

To do something great, you need to direct all the strength of your soul to one point. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910), Russian writer and thinker

Well, what a genius I am. He worked, he worked, he worked all his life. I was looking for it, and I found it! Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (February 8, 1834 - February 2, 1907), Russian chemist and encyclopedist

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine perspiration. Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931), American inventor and entrepreneur

Genius is persistence. Thomas Edison

Genius is endless endurance. Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930), English writer

Before I became a genius, I was a piano laborer. Ignacy Jan Paderewski (18 November 1860 – 29 June 1941), Polish pianist, composer and statesman

Brilliant ideas come to those who earn them through hard work. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (March 12, 1863 - January 6, 1945), Russian and Soviet naturalist I decisively and sternly expelled the pernicious Russian “maybe” from my working life and relied only on conscious creative effort. I generally don’t believe in the saving power of talent alone, without hard work. Without it, the greatest talent will fizzle out, just as a spring will die out in the desert... I don’t remember who said: “genius is diligence”... Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (February 13, 1873 - April 12, 1938), Russian opera and chamber singer

Outstanding personalities are formed not through beautiful speeches, but through their own work and its results. Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), German physicist

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is incorrect. For the hundredth time I'm right. Albert Einstein

Genius is the inability to do nothing. Charles Dubos (October 27, 1882 - August 5, 1939), French critic, historian and literary theorist Mozart became Mozart because he worked much more than Salieri. This work gave Mozart pleasure. Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (June 18, 1907 - January 17, 1982), Russian prose writer and poet Genius can be only a fleeting chance. Only work and will can give it life and turn it into glory. Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960), French writer and philosopher

A genius is a person with talent and the diligence of a person without talent. Gabriel Laub (October 24, 1928—February 3, 1998), writer and journalist

Holistic bundles of qualities and abilities

When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece. Robert Browning (May 7, 1812, London - December 12, 1889), English poet and playwright Genius is not any one talent, it is a combination of many great talents. Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886), American essayist and critic

Genius is the conscience of the past and the brain of the future. Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924), French writer and literary critic The secret of genius is work, perseverance and common sense Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931), American inventor and entrepreneur All the joys of life are in creativity. Love, genius, work - all these are flashes of forces emerging from a single flame... Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944), French writer

Quotes about geniuses

Genius is the talent to create something for which no specific rules can be given. Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to see the invisible, move the intangible, create that which has no form. Joseph Joubert

Knowing how things should be characterizes an intelligent person; knowledge of what things really are characterizes an experienced person; knowing how to change them for the better characterizes a person of genius. Denis Diderot

Talent is someone who showed up when it should have. A genius is someone who appears earlier than expected. Peter Pavlenko

Geniuses are divided into messengers of God and mediocrities ahead of their time. Vladimir Shoikher

There are two types of genius: one that first of all generates, fertilizes and wants to fertilize, the other willingly allows itself to be fertilized and gives birth. Friedrich Nietzsche

Geniuses are better able to hide their barrel organs than talents, thanks to the majestic folds of the cover they throw; but they can only play the same seven pieces. Friedrich Nietzsche

A genius is so internally rich that any topic, any thought, incident or object evokes in him an inexhaustible stream of associations. K. Paustovsky

Genius is not any one talent, it is a combination of many great talents. E. Whipple

Genius is the song of a robin at the beginning of late spring. D. Gibran

Genius is like a hill rising out of a plain. Kozma Prutkov

Genius is precisely that which does not fit into any rules. D. Granin

Genius is more than intelligence and talent. Genius has a special quality that defies precise definition. Very often it is expressed in the artistry of nature. Brilliant people have disappointments and eccentricities that lead to such an intensive development of perception, imagination and intuition that is not given to most human beings. Genius lives not only in poets and artists, but also in military leaders, and in statesmen, and, perhaps, in mathematicians and physicists. They are endowed with mental gifts that cannot be measured and cannot be reduced to education and experience. They can bring to life inspired beauty or wisdom, as if accidentally drawing it from a hidden source, the contents of which remain a mystery even to themselves. L. Fisher

Genius is, first of all, an outstanding ability to be responsible for everything. T. Carlyle

Genius is the combination of a natural gift and the special ability of the artist to see the world completely in his own way and at the same time with such breadth that it resonates not with people of this or that type, but with all people. S. Maugham

A fool can understand a work of genius. But it’s completely different! S. Lec

Genius, in its highest incarnation, creates so that in the eyes of people and in their own, the last of the unfortunates in the darkest hard labor will gain dignity. A. Camus

Genius is like those vast lands where there are places that are poorly maintained and poorly cultivated: in such a large space it is impossible to carefully cultivate everything. Only people of little intelligence look after everything: a small garden is easier to keep in order. K. Helvetius

A genius chained to an official's desk must die or go mad, just as a man with a powerful physique, with a sedentary life and modest behavior, dies of apoplexy. M. Lermontov

Genius lies in the ability to distinguish the difficult from the impossible. Napoleon I

A genius is an immortal version of a common man. S. Dovlatov

Genius is the pinnacle of practical intuition. J. Cocteau

Genius is vision that grasps at one glance all the points of the vast horizon. P. Holbach

Genius is the inability to do nothing. S. Dubos

Genius is breadth of mind, power of imagination and activity of the soul. Paraphrased by D. Diderot

Genius is the talent of a deceased person. Edmond Goncourt

Genius is the worst example for talent. Murray Edwards

Genius: a man who can convince his wife that a mink coat makes her look fat. Yanina Ipohorskaya

Talent is something you possess; genius is what masters you. Malcolm Cowley

A genius shoots at a target that no one can see - and hits. Genius: An artist who is worth more when he is dead than when he is alive. Leonard Louis Levinson

Only in happy moments does talent manage to make a line from dots, which genius draws with one stroke of the pen. Maria Ebner Eschenbach

Genius is the talent for inventing something that cannot be taught or learned. Immanuel Kant

Genius: A person who can solve problems you didn't know existed in a way you don't understand. F. Kernan

Talent works, genius creates. Robert Schumann

Mozart became Mozart because he worked much more than Salieri. This work gave Mozart pleasure. Varlam Shalamov

Everyone objects to the fact that I'm a genius, although no one has ever called me that. Orson Welles

From genius to triviality there is only one step. Stanislav Vitkevich

The function of a genius is to deliver ideas that twenty years from now will become the property of cretins. Louis Aragon

For God's sake, don't write such nonsense, otherwise I'll think I'm a genius! Karol Izhikowski

Nature rests on the children of geniuses. An old saying

Nature rests on the children of geniuses, and the children of geniuses rest on their parents. Gennady Malkin

Genius is like gold: many people write about both without having either. Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest geniuses do not despise those who are lower than them, while other people usually disdain even those who are higher than them. Bernard de Fontenelle

In practical life, a genius is no more useful than a telescope in the theater. Arthur Schopenhauer

In every creation of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. Ralph Emerson

Genius is the most solemn and powerful manifestation of self-conscious nature... Vissarion Belinsky

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison

Genius is the conscience of the past and the brain of the future. Anatole France

The first and last thing required of a genius is truth. Johann Wolfgang Goethe