Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Unknown
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time
Elbert Hubbard
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
Robert Green Ingersoll
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
Alfred North Whitehead
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
Samuel Butler
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
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