Cherish Quote by Robert Southey

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Immanuel Kant

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus…

— Ezra Pound

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

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who…

— Dean Keith Simonton

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

— William James

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds