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Genius Quotations
Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

  1. "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."
    -- Samuel Adams
  2. "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
    -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  3. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
    -- Anonymous
  4. "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
    --Aristotle
  5. "Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
    -- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  6. "Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."
    --George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  7. "Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
    --Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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  8. "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
    -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  9. "What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."
    -- Eugene Delacroix
  10. "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
    -- Denis Diderot
  11. "Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe."
    -- Benjamin Disraeli
  12. "Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius."
    --Isaac D'Israeli
  13. "I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject."
    -- Clint Eastwood
  14. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration."
    -- Thomas Edison
  15. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
    -- Albert Einstein
  16. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
    -- Albert Einstein
  17. "The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward."
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  18. "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  19. "The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  20. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  21. "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. "Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
    --Henry Ford
  23. "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."
    --John Foster
  24. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
    --Benjamin Franklin
  25. "Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."
    -- Margaret Fuller

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  26. "The genius is making a way out of no way."
    --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  27. "Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."
    -- Michael J. Gelb
  28. "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
    --Shakti Gawain
  29. "What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?"
    --Bette Greene
  30. "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
    -- Alexander Hamilton
  31. "Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
    -- Henry Havelock
  32. "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
    --William Hazlitt
  33. "Genius is nothing but continued attention."
    -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
  34. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
    --Elbert Hubbard
  35. "Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius."
    --Elbert Hubbard
  36. "Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite."
    -- Victor Hugo
  37. "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
    --Aldous Huxley

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  38. "Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
    --William James
  39. "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
    -- William James
  40. "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
    -- James Joyce
  41. "I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius."
    --Soren Kierkegaard
  42. "The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
    --Arthur Koestler
  43. "To see things in the seed, that is genius."
    --Lao-tzu

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  44. "Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
    --Doris Lessing
  45. "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
    --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  46. "It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."
    -- Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
  47. "Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward."
    --Walter Lippmann
  48. "Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
    -- Cesare Lombroso
  49. "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
    -- Cesare Lombroso
  50. "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  51. "Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
    -- Edward George Earle Lytton
  52. "Our creative genius is the fountainhead of originality. It fires our compulsion to evolve. It inspires us to challenge norms. Creative genius is about flying to new heights on untested wings. It is about the danger of crashing."
    --Gordon MacKenzie
  53. "Do you know what makes a man a genius? The ability to see the obvious."
    --Charles McCarry
  54. "Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas."
    --Jane McElyea
  55. "Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential."
    --Mary Russell Mitford

    Innovation
  56. "Genius is perseverence in disguise."
    -- Mike Newlin
  57. "Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
    --Ezra Pound
  58. "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
    -- Carl Sagan
  59. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."
    --E. F. Schumacker
  60. "Talent works, genius creates."
    -- Robert Schumann
  61. "The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."
    -- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
  62. "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
    --Gertrude Stein
  63. "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
    -- Jonathan Swift
  64. "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
    -- Henry David Thoreau
  65. "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
    -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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