Genius Quotes

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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. — Madame de Stael
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate — Horace Mann
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by… — Robertson Davies
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet — Max Beerbohm
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead
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… — Unknown Author
Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side — Donald Petersen
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius — Unknown Author
Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning. — Joel Achenbach
No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. — Benjamin Disraeli
Eccentricities of genius. — Charles Dickens
Genius is talent provided with ideals. — W. Somerset Maugham
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better — Elbert Hubbard
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. — Honore de Balzac
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a… — William Hazlitt
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available — Victor Hugo
Hunger is the handmaid of genius — Mark Twain
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates… — Francois Arago
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. — Howard G. Hendricks

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