Capable Quote by Marcel Proust

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them…

— William James

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

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

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

— Hector Berlioz

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great…

— Knut Hamsun

“People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in its true…

— John Stuart Mill

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working…

— James Anthony Froude

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne