- "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 - "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel - "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
-- Anonymous - "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
--Aristotle - "Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
-- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - "Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."
--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon - "Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
--Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonThe Genius of Leonardo da... - "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "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 - "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 - "Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe."
-- Benjamin Disraeli - "Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius."
--Isaac D'Israeli - "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 - "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas Edison - "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
-- Albert Einstein - "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-- Albert Einstein - "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 - "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
-- Ralph Waldo EmersonCreate - "The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson - "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 - "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald - "Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
--Henry Ford - "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."
--John Foster - "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
--Benjamin Franklin - "Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."
-- Margaret FullerAbility - "The genius is making a way out of no way."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - "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 - "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 - "What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?"
--Bette Greene - "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 - "Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
-- Henry Havelock - "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
--William Hazlitt - "Genius is nothing but continued attention."
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius - "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
--Elbert Hubbard - "Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius."
--Elbert Hubbard - "Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite."
-- Victor Hugo - "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
--Aldous HuxleyVision - Crimson Morning - "Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
--William James - "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
-- William James - "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
-- James Joyce - "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 - "The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
--Arthur Koestler - "To see things in the seed, that is genius."
--Lao-tzuTerrasse de Cafe - "Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
--Doris Lessing - "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - "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 - "Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward."
--Walter Lippmann - "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 - "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
-- Cesare Lombroso - "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 - "Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
-- Edward George Earle Lytton - "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 - "Do you know what makes a man a genius? The ability to see the obvious."
--Charles McCarry - "Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas."
--Jane McElyea - "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 MitfordInnovation - "Genius is perseverence in disguise."
-- Mike Newlin - "Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
--Ezra Pound - "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 - "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 - "Talent works, genius creates."
-- Robert Schumann - "The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."
-- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler - "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
--Gertrude Stein - "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 - "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
-- Henry David Thoreau - "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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