It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt

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

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

It is always well to get near to men of genius.
William Henry Moody

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Only a genius can play a fool.
Michael Rapaport

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant H. McGill

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

She was a genius, my mother.
Sally Kirkland

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
John Ciardi

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
Ron Chernow

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.
Craig Bruce