Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind; terrify mankind; cleanse the air.

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A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, As quoted in Reader’s Digest (October 1927)

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, As quoted from Electrical Review (c. 1895) without further attribution in The Search for the North Pole (1896) by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, page 520. Complete Sentence: Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass Read More…

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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.

Source: James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), Chapter 9: Scylla and Charybdis.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Source: Charles Baudelaire, The Painter Of Modern Life And Other Essays (1863). Complete Quote: Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.