Famous Genius Quotes

 

“Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
Edison

"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
Benjamin Franklin

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert

"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
Woodrow Wilson

“Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.”
Bulwer-Lytton

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
Malcolm Cowley

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."
John W. Foster

“Inspiration and genius—one and the same.”
Victor Hugo

 “Genius is only great patience.”
Buffon

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

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
Arthur Conan Doyle
 

"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
Joseph Addison