Joseph Joubert Quotes

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.

Would Bill Gates or Steve Jobs have been considered above average 500 years ago? Who is to decide what is best?

In some ways, it's better to be undervalued a little than overvalued a lot, just because it's still easy to believe our best days are ahead of us.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.