Genius Quotes

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

Thomas Edison

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.

Thomas Edison

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Senec

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius is there in all of us, just waiting for us to tap into it

Robert R. Toth

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James