"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on genius
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"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

Fuller, Buckminster on genius   

"The greatest genius is the most indebted person."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."

Eliot, George on genius   

"Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught."

Dryden, John on genius   

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Dryden, John on genius
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

Carlyle, Thomas on genius
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

Dryden, John on genius
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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius   

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

Auden, W. H. on genius
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"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on genius
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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on desire   

"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on absurdity
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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy."

Ray, Man on genius   

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

Pound, Ezra on genius
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."

Lowell, James Russell on genius
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path."

Lincoln, Abraham on genius
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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on genius   

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

Lewes, George Henry on genius
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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on genius   

"To see things in the seed is genius."

Lao-Tzu on genius
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"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

Koestler, Arthur on genius
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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way."

James, William on genius   

"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."

Hubbard, Elbert on genius
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"Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on genius   

"Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties."

Hedge, Francis Herbert on genius   

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on greatness
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

Havel, Vaclav on humor
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