The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence. Imagination, and taste, and genius, and the beauties of creation, and the works of art, lie open to him.
—William Wilberforce
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
—Henry Ford
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.
—Michelangelo
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
—Plato
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
—Thomas Edison
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Neither a 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 Amadeus Mozart
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
—Oscar Wilde
There is no genius without a touch of madness.
—Seneca
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
—Immanuel Kant
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky