“Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.”
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“I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.”
“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”
“Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”
“Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.”
“Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.”
Source: Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life
“Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.”
Source: Along the Path to Enlightenment
“Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.”
“It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big”
“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie”
“I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Execution is the chariot of genius.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.”
“There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.”
Source: Endymion
“Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
Source: A Preface to Morals
“Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.”
“For style beyond the genius never dares.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks