Authenticity Quote by Alan Cohen

“(The word “genius” comes from the Latin, and originally referred to a guardian spirit that watched over the birth of each person; it later…

— Robert Greene

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

— George Eliot

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

— Andre Maurois

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

— Margot Fonteyn

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would be satisfied…

— W. Somerset Maugham

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

— David Gerrold