I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.
~ Bob Dylan

Genius is a combination of three 'I's: intellect, imagination and intuition
~ Professor A.C. Bharadwaj, Allahabad University, India

What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits.
~Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~George-Louis De Buffon



It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
~Gertrude Stein

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
~Robert Henri

Genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
~Jane Hopkins

Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise.
~H.W. Austin

Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
~Former President Calvin Coolidge

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, and they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent... it is but the newspaper of a century, or perhaps of a hundred centuries.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
~Georg Lichtenberg

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
~Unknown

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
~Winston Churchill