His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.