Genius Quotes
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.William James
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.Thomas A. Edison
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.Max Gluckman
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
Since when was genius found respectable?Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have nothing to declare but my genius.Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs
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. Gel
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
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
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.Josh Billings
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 hath electric power which earth can never tame.Lydia M. Child
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.Edgard Varese
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.George Bernard Shaw
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.William James
Genius is talent provided with ideals.William Somerset Maugham
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
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
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.John Henry Cardinal Newman
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - Nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhaue
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.Edgar Lee Masters
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.George Steine
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.Ralph Waldo Emerson
