(787 quotes found)
“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
Charles Baudelaire
“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”
Marcus Garvey
“We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes”
Ayn Rand
“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Oscar Levant
