A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Genius is sorrow's child.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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.

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

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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

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.

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.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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

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.

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.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

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.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

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

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