Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri-Frederic Amiel
2. For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble. - Kurt Hanks
3. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. - Isaac D'Israeli
4. A genius! For thirty-seven years I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! - Pablo Sarasate
5. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce
6. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. - Horace
7. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli
8. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg
9. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. - Henry David Thoreau
10. What is genius - but the power of expressing a new individuality? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11. We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. - Louis Aragon
12. With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us. - Paul Eldridge
13. We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. - Bernard Berenson
14. True genius does not understand the word fear - instead, the sails are set by hope of unseen shores. - Todd Plough
15. True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. - Oliver Goldsmith