Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.