Degrees Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

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

— Andre Maurois

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

— Denis Dutton

Genius is ninty-nine percent madness and one percent acumen.

— Steve Fowler

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all…

— Thomas A. Edison

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

— Simone Weil

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

— William James

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things…

— Benjamin Haydon

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

— William James