Genius Quotes

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

Stupidity, Between, Difference

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

Path, Beaten, Hitherto

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Else, Talent, Hit

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

True, Capacity, Uncertain

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde

Paid, Ridicule, Tribute

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Put, Talent

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Public, Except, Tolerant

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Common

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

True, Him, Against

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin

Education, Mine, Silver

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Great, Madness, Mixture

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

Beauty, Boring, Madness

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

True, Saying, Silence

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Nature, Done

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence, Inspires, Boundless

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early, Century, Finds

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Hand, Full

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne

Experience, Daily, Emotions

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Health, Abundance

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

Stupidity, May, Thus

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Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson

Fire, Initiative

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Law, Others

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Moment, House, Follow

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

Someone, Question, Anybody

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