Quotations on Genius
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
-Joseph Joubert
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison
Sometimes I think I'm a genius, and other times I just know.
-Josh McMahon
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
-Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
-Lady Marguerite Blessington
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
-Samuel Butler
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

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