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Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

Genius is intuition on fire.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

Genius is intellect constructive.

"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.