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Genius Quotes
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."
Benjamin Franklin
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
E. F. Schumacher
“Genius is only great patience.”
Buffon
“Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
Edison
"Genius is eternal patience."
Michelangelo
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert
"Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
Woodrow Wilson
"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust in hard work, perseverance, and determination. And the best motto for the long march is: "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
Frederick Treves
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
May Sarton
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
Joseph Addison
“Inspiration and genius—one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
Horace
"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
Malcolm Cowley
"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
George Henry Lewes
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
Joseph Addison
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
Aldous Huxley |
