Genius

(289 votes)   Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(244 votes)   Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist

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(234 votes)   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.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(227 votes)   Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(214 votes)   A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Joey Lauren Adams
1971-, American Actress

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(206 votes)   Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(180 votes)   Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(173 votes)   It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(163 votes)   There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith
1864-1945, British Socialite

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(159 votes)   Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(136 votes)   Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(131 votes)   Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(131 votes)   Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(93 votes)   To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(90 votes)   Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite

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