Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. - Edwin Percy Whipple
3. Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. - Robert Lowell
4. Talent works, genius creates. - Robert Schumann
5. Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. - Louisa May Alcott
6. Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. - Goethe
7. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Genius, unlike virtuosity, is judged by the greatness of results, not by the brilliance of performance. - Vincent Tomas
9. Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. - Edmund C. Stedman
10. Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. - Auguste Rodin
11. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin
12. Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise. - H. W. Austin
13. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. - Bulwer-Lytton
14. Genius only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. - Jane Hopkins
15. Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski