Wendell Phillips Quotes

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Most geniuses are weird.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Only great people can make great products.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.