"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience." — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."
More Aptitude Quotes
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. — Anton Chekhov
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all… — Denis Waitley
- Your attitude is more important that your aptitude. — Zig Ziglar
- In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who… — Proclus
- Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a… — Nelson Mandela
- The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the… — Wilfred Trotter
- Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into… — Ken Robinson
- In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness. — Norm MacDonald
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of… — Samuel Johnson
- If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise… — Herbert Spencer
- People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in… — George Leef