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This collection of genius quotes features well known figures such as Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo and other persons thought to be genius.
The Genius of Creativity
A quotation reading compiled by Franklin Baer.
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
- Bernard Berenson
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
- Joshua Reynolds
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
- Victor Hugo
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.
- Puzant Thomajan
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
- Thomas Huxley
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble.
- Kurt Hanks
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
- Unknown
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- G. C. Lichtenberg
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- Joseph Joubert
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. - Samuel Johnson
It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.
- Edmond Duranty
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
- C. W. Ceram
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
- Christopher Quill
Skill is fine, and genius in splendid, but right contacts are more valuable than either.
- Archibald McIndoe
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace
Never think that God's delays are God's denials.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius.
- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon