His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas Alva Edison

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy de Maupassant

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Quintilian

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Charles Baudelaire

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert