All kinds Quote by Samuel Butler

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

— Leslie Stephen

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

— Thomas Carlyle

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

— Aleister Crowley

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and…

— Robert Henri

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

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

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

— Madame de Stael

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

— Cesare Lombroso

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald