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Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius Quotes
35 FAMOUS QUOTES · GENIUS
Genius Quotes
Read 35 famous genius quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show."Ada Lovelace
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
Comte de Buffon
"Genius is eternal patience."
Michelangelo
"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."
Benjamin Disraeli
“In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.”Leonardo da Vinci
“Genius is sorrow's child.”John Adams
“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”Henry David Thoreau
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”Aristotle
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”Aldous Huxley
"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."
Akira Kurosawa
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."Benjamin Franklin
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
Elbert Hubbard
"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."
Srinivasa Ramanujan
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Jonathan Swift
"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."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."Aldous Huxley
"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will."
Charles Baudelaire
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
John Dryden
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
Seneca