Be More Creative Gifts: Gifts, Giftedness & Genius in Quotations

 

A Month of Quotations about Genius
 

 

 

1
Being gifted needs courage.
- Georg Brandes
 
2
You're gifted to do something.
- Karen Kingsbury
 
3
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
- Abraham Lincoln
 
4
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace
 
5
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
6
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
 
7
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin
 
8
Genius is childhood recaptured.
- Jean Baudrillard
 
9
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
- Henry Austin
 
10
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
- Robert Downey, Jr.
 
11
The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not every thing it should be.
- Edgar Allan Poe
 
12
Talent works, genius creates.
- Robert Alexander Schumann
 
13
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
- Samuel Johnson
 
14
The legs are the wheels of creativity.
- Albert Einstein
 
15
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
- Thomas Carlyle
 
16
To see things in the seed is genius.
- Lao-Tzu
 
17
Genius is elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
 
18
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
- Bern Williams
 
19
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
 
20
Talent works, genius creates.
- Robert Alexander Schumann
 
21
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
- Norman Spinrad
 
22
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
- Ethel Waters
 
23
Creativity -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
- William Plomer
 
24
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
- Larry Leissner
 
25
Genius is childhood recaptured.
- Jean Baudrillard
 
26
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
- Henry Austin
 
27
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
 
28
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
- Rachel Kushner
 
29
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
- James Cook
 
30
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies
 
31
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us.
- Paul Eldridge