Genius Quotes

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth 1697

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie
Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Talent works, genius creates.
Robert A. Schumann

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind
Lord Essex







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