100 Best Genius Quotes About Quick Thinking And Intelligence

A genius is a person displaying exceptional intellectual ability.

They can be creatively productive, original, and universally adept. Geniuses are, to a degree, associated with discoveries and advancements in the domain of knowledge.

Francis Galton and James McKeen Catell analyzed the tempo of reaction and sensory acuity in the human mind’s neurophysiological aspect and advocated it as a measurement of intelligence. The first intelligence or IQ test was developed by Alfred Binet and his colleague Theodore Simon and is used to measure a person’s single, permanent and inborn intelligence level. The highest IQ score ever recorded is 263, of Ainan Celeste Cawley.

During the entirety of human history, there have been a great number of geniuses who have had an impact on humanity and its progress. Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla, Issac Newton, and Ada Lovelace are just a few of the greatest geniuses to exist.

If you love these genius quotes, check out these Ada Lovelace quotes and Mozart quotes too!

The Best Quotes About Genius
Find the best quotations about genius, and its impact on the world.

1. “Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”

— George Henry Lewes.

2. “Geniuses in the world… are undervalued and underutilized.”

— Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, ‘The Gifted Adult’.

3. “A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.”

— Joey Adams.

4. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe.

5. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

— Gertrude Stein.

6. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

— Aristotle.

7. “The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.”

— Masashi Kishimoto.

8. “How near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.”
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— Denis Diderot.

9. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe.

10. “The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.”

— Otto Weininger.

11. “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

― Oscar Levant.

12. “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Valley Of Fear’.

13. “When a great genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

― Jonathan Swift.

14. “We all have genius within us, never doubt that fact.”

— Catherine Pulsifer.

15. “Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

16. “Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

— Henri Frederic Amiel.

17. “Genius is talent set on fire by courage.”

— Henry Van Dyke.

18. “Every great genius has an admixture of madness.”

— Aristotle.

19. “One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”

— John W. Foster.

20. “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

— Winston Churchill.

21. “I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.”

– James McNeill Whistler.

22. “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

― Woody Guthrie.

Famous Genius Quotes

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23. “Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live, as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because