Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

It will work. I am a marketing genius.
Paris Hilton

Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Joe E. Lewis

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

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

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow