Genius Quotes

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

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

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Marguerite Blessington

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

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.

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Ridicule is the Burden of Genius.
Daffy Duck

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C. W. Ceram

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.







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