| |
| Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| |
| |
| Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one | | E. B. White | |
| Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. | | Samuel Butler | |
| |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| |
| Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features | | Joseph Joubert | |
| Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way | | William James | |
| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. | | W. H. Auden | |
| |
| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | | Albert Einstein | |
| |
| I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man | | Albert Camus | |
