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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
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
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
George Henry Lewes
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor
George Bernard Shaw
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
Genius is born, not paid.
Oscar Wilde
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
H. R. TrevorRoper
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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
