Genius Quotes

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Henri-Frederic Amiel, 1828-1881)

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction ore defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Max Beerbohm, 1872-1956)

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931)

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius. (Ralph Waldo Emerson,1803-1882)

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire. (John Foster, 1770-1843)

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. (James Joyce, 1882-1941)

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. (Georg Lichtenberg, 1742-1799)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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