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- The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
- Abbe Guillaume Raynal
- All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
- Hannah More
- Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
- Chang Ch'ao
- Genius is childhood recaptured.
- Bauldlaire
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