Genius Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The divine egoism that is genius.
Mary Webb (1881-1927) British author
The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) British author
To mediocrity genius is unforgivable.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Amid (1821-1881) Swiss philosopher, poet
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) English author
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist
If we are to have genius we must put up with the inconvenience ofgenius, and that the world will never do; it wants geniuses, but would like them just like other people.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English poet
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist
The most effective way of shutting our minds against a RI. e at man’s ideas is to take them for granted and admit he was great and have done with him.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Everybody denies I am a genius — but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles (1915-1985) American filmmaker
Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist of The Tale of a Tub
A man who is a genius and doesn’t know it probably isn’t
Stanislaus J. Lee (b. 1909) Polish poet
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Morell, Candida George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
