Aptitude Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

— Andre Maurois

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

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

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

— Benjamin Franklin

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

— John Dryden

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

— Ambrose Bierce

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer…

— William Gilmore Simms