“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