Joseph Epstein Quotes

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Genius is of no country.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.