Genius Quotes

“Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
– Simone De Beauvoir

“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
– Horace

“Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.”
– Owen Meredith

“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
– Anthony Robbins

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer