Age Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

— Dorothy Parker

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious…

— Walter Russell

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

— Samuel Butler

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are…

— Wayne Dyer

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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