Genius Quotes

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

Talent must have memory; genius don’t require it. (Josh Billings)

Genius learns from nature; talent from books. (Josh Billings)

Men of genius are scarce, but men of genius who use their genius for the benefit of the world are scarcer. (Josh Billings )

Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience. (George-Louis de Buffon)

Genius is bound to be indulgent. It should know human errors so well—has, with its large luminous forces, such errors itself when it deigns to be human, that, where others may scorn, genius should only pity. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. (François-René de Chateaubriand)

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