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1. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."
Winston Churchill
Quotations about: Various
Edmund Spenser, "The Shepherd's Calendar"
Quotations about: Memory
3. "What is genius - but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Quotations about: Various
4. "If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."
Larry Leissner
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
5. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"
Quotations about: Human -:- Various
6. "An Artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola
Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Work and Laziness
7. "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson
Quotations about: Oration and Silence
8. "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
E. B. White
Konstantin Stanislavsky
10. "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Henry David Thoreau
Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance
Henry David Thoreau
Quotations about: Nature and Animals
12. "Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
Edward de Bono
Quotations about: Happiness
Denis Diderot, "Selected Writings"
George Steiner
Pearl Bailey
Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Notes on the Novel"
Quotations about: Various
17. "Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"
19. "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
20. "Every man is a potential genius until he does something."
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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Uta Hagen, "Respect for Acting"
Quotations about: Art and Culture
22. "Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."
Maya Angelou
Antonin Artaud, "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society"
Quotations about: Normality and Madness
Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"
25. "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."
Brian W. Aldiss
Quotations about: Question and Problem
26. "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
Oscar Levant
Quotations about: Normality and Madness
Carl Sagan
28. "The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
Pablo Picasso
Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"
30. "Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
Quotations about: Various
31. "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Honoré De Balzac
Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man
32. "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
33. "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Salvador Dalí
Quotations about: Various
34. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Work and Laziness
35. "Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
Brian Tracy
Quotations about: Power and Weakness
36. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Quotations about: Art and Culture
37. "Talent is nothing if it's not controlled, harnessed and disciplined."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
38. "I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it."
Thomas Alva Edison
Quotations about: Science and Technology
39. "Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."
James Russell Lowell
40. "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison
Quotations about: Work and Laziness
41. "Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
42. "Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
Margot Fonteyn
Jose Rizal
Richard Feynman
Cesare Lombroso
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement
46. "Genius sees the answer before the question."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Quotations about: Question and Problem
47. "Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
Cesare Lombroso
Quotations about: Normality and Madness
Ayn Rand, "The Virtue of Selfishness"
49. "Passion is the genesis of genius."
Anthony Robbins
50. "Talent is only the starting point."
Irving Berlin