Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped
Elbert Hubbard
Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe
Benjamin Disraeli
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains
Jane Ellice Hopkins
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way
William James
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
Robert Green Ingersoll
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does
Christopher Morley
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
Lord Byron
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up
Terry Pratchett
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
Hugh Trevor-Roper