| Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas Edison Genius |
| More from Thomas Edison |
| They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas Edison |
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| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison |
| The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison |
| Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Edison |
| Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas Edison |
| There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. Thomas Edison |
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| I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Thomas Edison |
| To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison |
| More in the Genius category |
| Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard Genius |
| There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Genius |
| The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde Genius |
| He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. Robertson Davies Genius |
| Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. Samuel Butler Genius |
| Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt Genius |
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison Genius |
| Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein Genius |
| The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein Genius |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius |
