“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”
“The greatest genius is the most indebted person.”
“Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.”
“Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.”
“Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.”
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
“The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.”
“Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
“A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.”
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
“Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!”
“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.”
“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”
“The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.”
“The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.”
“There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.”
“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.”