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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
- Hayden, B. R.
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Best Quotes about Genius

1.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

2.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

3.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Picasso, Pablo

4.
Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!
Welles, Orson

5.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Williams, Bern

6.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

7.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Auden, W. H.

8.
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Lewes, George Henry

10.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Lowell, James Russell

12.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Hume, David

13.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

14.
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
Hayden, B. R.

15.
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
Byron, Lord

16.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Stein, Gertrude

18.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

20.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Koestler, Arthur

21.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Adams, John

22.
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Hamilton, Alexander

23.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Schlegel, Friedrich

25.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
Crashaw, William

26.
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.
Joyce, James

27.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Adams, Joey Lauren

28.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Weil, Simone

30.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Child, Lydia M.

31.
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill

32.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

33.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca

34.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Wilde, Oscar

35.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

36.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.
Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Lund, Robert S.

38.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

39.
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Hubbard, Elbert

41.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heine, Heinrich

42.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese

43.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Stael, Germaine De

44.
The divine egoism hat is genius.
Webb, Mary

45.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Calvino, Italo

47.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Fuller, Margaret

48.
Genius is independent of situation.
Churchill, Charles

49.
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Churchill, Winston


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