“Towering genius disdains a beaten path.”
“Since when was genius found respectable?”
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
“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.”
“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.”
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
“It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.”
“What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.”
“Genius is eternal patience.”
“Genius, when young, is divine.”
“Genius is childhood recaptured.”
“The divine egoism hat is genius.”
“Genius is independent of situation.”
“To see things in the seed is genius.”
“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”
“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
“Accept your genius and say what you think.”
“The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”