Character Quote by Joan Acocella

“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or divine gift.…

— Sean Patrick

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of…

— Adolf Hitler

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There…

— Louisa May Alcott

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

“believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall”

— Sean Patrick

“Well, I believe there are very practical answers to what makes a genius tick. I believe there are principles that we can isolate and…

— Sean Patrick

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.…

— Oscar Wilde

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty…

— David Foster Wallace

“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.”

— Thomas Mann