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Quotes about Geniuses

thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.
— Oscar Wilde
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
— Oscar Wilde
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
— DH Lawrence
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
— Oscar Wilde
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
— John Updike