Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyIn men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
CiceroGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B WhiteA book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl SandburgOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordBetter 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.
Jose Ortega Y GassetYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotGenius is childhood recalled at will.
Pierre Charles BaudelaireGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich HeineThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur KoestlerI'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R Buckminster FullerAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardTalent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May AlcottShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyWe should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B PriestleyThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people 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. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeNo communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity
Johann Lavater Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario PuzoThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusEvery man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonBeware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheGenius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Kathe KollwitzMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max BeerbohmThe genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore VidalThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonI used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
John LennonTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherSometimes, 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 Gustav JungThis island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin BevanTo see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao TzuGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundIt is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon JohnsonOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonI have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar WildeThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah MorePeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
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