prodigious intellect Quotes

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.