Genius Quotes


Genius quotes in this collection give many clues to your potential for genius. Great thinkers say we are all born displaying genius. Something happens after we begin formal learning that seems to stunt that gift in most of us. I hope these quotes awaken your inner genius. For self-help coaching to activate your inner genius, explore the subject categories of Talent, Purpose, Insight and Possibility.



Genius is childhood recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
Robert Brault

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

The source of genius is imagination alone.
Eugene Delacroix

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

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

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Every child is born a genius.
Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

To believe in your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller

The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed

Neither lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Mike Newlin

That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.
Mark Victor Hansen & Barbara Nichols

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
Oscar Wilde



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