Combination Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all…

— William C. Bryant

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable…

— Abraham Kuyper

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic.…

— David R. Hawkins

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies…

— Samuel Johnson

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in…

— Samuel Smiles

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

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