Genius Quotes

“Genius is eternal patience.”

Michelangelo

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

Eugène Delacroix

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

Edward Gibbon

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.”

“Solitude is the fate of all outstanding minds.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Thomas Edison

“Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has. I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.”

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path.”