Failure Quote by Lewis Carroll

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

— Elbert Hubbard

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

— James Russell Lowell

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

— Amelia Barr

Often times, it's the mistakes that make it genius

— Melody Minagar

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

— Samuel Butler

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

— Joseph Epstein

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

— Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

— Janet Flanner