Genius

Creativity, ingenuity, brains, intellect

QUOTES

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Thoughts, 1711

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H Auden
1964

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
1932

See Also Creativity

References

History

Leonardo, Edison, Newton, J S Mill

Arts & Science

Movies: Amadeus, A Beautiful Mind, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Finding Forrester

Literature

David Auburn: Proof

Christy Brown: My Left Foot

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

W Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

Chaim Potok: My Name is Asher Lev

G B Shaw: Saint Joan

Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel

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