Genius Quotes
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.Michael J. Gel
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.Carl Jung
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.Anonymous
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - Either by themselves or by others.Mark Twain
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.Henri Frdric Amiel
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.Jonathan Swift
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.Paterculus
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.Edward George Bulwer - Lytton
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.Cicero
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
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, Thoughts on Various Subjects
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.Victor Hugo
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.Aldous Huxley
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
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
