Inspirational genius quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Powerful Collection of Most Famous Genius Quotes
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it. – unknown
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply! – Bruce Lee
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – BB King
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. – Alfred Mercier
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss. – Guillermo Del Toro
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets. – Leonardo Da Vinci
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. – John W. Foster
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri-Frederic Amiel
The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work. – Kathleen Winsor
Life is a learning experience, only if you learn. – Yogi Berra
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. – Harry S. Truman
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. – Eartha Kitt
Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle
Genius is eternal patience. – Michelangelo
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. – Arthur Rimbaud
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. – Deepak Chopra
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
Genius always finds itself a century too early. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is finding the invisible link between things. – Vladimir Nabokov
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. – Simone Weil
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. – Lydia M. Child
Geniuses don’t become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to. – James McGregor
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. – Criss Jami
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left. – Oscar Levant
Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy
Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. – Benjamin Franklin
We all have genius within us, never doubt that fact. – Catherine Pulsifer
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce
Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire. – WB Yeats
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Genius is never understood in its own time. – Bill Watterson
Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. – Ezra Pound
Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered —” either by themselves or by others. – Mark Twain
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. – Josh Billings
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. – Fulke Greville
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll
You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing and falling over. – Richard Branson
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. – Albert Einstein
Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. – George Carlin
Becoming a genius is not just knowing that it is possible – it is taking action and having genius experiences. – Andrei G. Aleinikov
Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. – Henry Ford
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience. – Paul Cezanne
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. – Leonardo da Vinci
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. – Charles Bukowski
If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t learning anything. – Muhammad Ali
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even the genius asks questions. – Tupac Shakur
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone De Beauvoir
Taste is the common sense of genius. – Victor Hugo
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box. – Toba Beta
All geniuses die young. – Groucho Marx
Geniuses have the shortest biographies. – Claire Messud
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – Stephen Hawking
You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart. – Gabrielle Union
I’ve learned that while I’d be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say. – Alicia Keys
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid. – Einstien
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. – Aldous Huxley
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it. – Wayne Dyer
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try, they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact. – Bill Gates
I never cut class. I loved getting A’s. I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world. – Michelle Obama
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at. – Tina Fey
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. – Aldous Huxley
Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot. – Charles Bukowski
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. – Albert Einstein
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. – Confucius
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E. B. White
Genius is talent set on fire by courage. – Henry Van Dyke
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison