Genius Quotes
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Robert Quillen
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
Samuel Butler
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
William Hazlitt
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Marguerite Blessington
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
Alfred North Whitehead
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
Robert Green Ingersoll
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time
Elbert Hubbard
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Fritz Kreisler
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
