Inspirations

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

- Louis Aragon

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

- W H Auden

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

- Charles Baudelaire

Genius is childhood recaptured.

- Jean Baudrillard

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

- Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

- Italo Calvino

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

- C W Ceran

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

- Chao Chang

Genius is independent of situation.

- Charles Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

- Winston Churchill

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

- Charles Caleb Colton

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

- William Crashaw

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

- Denis Diderot

Genius, when young, is divine.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas A Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

- Thomas A Edison

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept your genius and say what you think.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

- Lord Essex

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

- Buckminster Fuller

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it, the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

- Alexander Hamilton

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

- B R Hayden

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

- William Hazlitt

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

- Francis Herbert Hedge

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

- David Hume

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

- Aldous Huxley

Genius, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

- William James

All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

- Peter Kline

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

- Arthur Koestler

To see things in the seed is genius.

- Lao-Tzu

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

- Georg C Lichtenberg

Genius is eternal patience.

- Michelangelo

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

- Don G Mitchell

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

- Hannah More

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

- James Cash Penney

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

- Friedrich Schlegel

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

- Germaine De Stael

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

- H R Trevor-Roper

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others.

- Mark Twain

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

- Source Unknown

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

- Source Unknown

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

- Simone Weil

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

- Bern Williams

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

Genius is independent of situation.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Genius, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.

All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

To see things in the seed is genius.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Genius is eternal patience.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

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

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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