Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius. – Elbert Hubbard

I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. – James McNeill Whistler

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. – George Henry Lewes

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. – Arthur Koestler

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. – Lord Essex

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. – H. R. Trevor-Roper

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Accept your genius and say what you think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade. – Benjamin Franklin

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. – Robert Brault

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. – Ezra Pound

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

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. – Leonardo da Vinci

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. – Michael Carr

Genius is perseverance in disguise. – Mike Newlin

Neither lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. – Josh Billings

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. – Heinrich Heine

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White

People ask how I think up my thoughts.  Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon’s lyrics. – Robert Brault

Every child is born a genius. – Albert Einstein

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. – Mark Twain

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson