Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Genius Quotes

1. Genius is mainly an affair of energy. - Matthew Arnold

2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

3. Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

4. Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. - Elbert Hubbard

5. A genius is someone who shoots at a target no one else sees and hits it. - Unknown

6. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. - Katharine Hepburn

7. I do not despise genius – indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry – patient, steady, intelligent industry – will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty. - Walter Lippman

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

9. To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao Tsu

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