Logo
Quote by Marguerite Blessington
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

Other quotes by Marguerite Blessington

Tears fell from my eyes–yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed. – Marguerite Blessington

Category:
Ugliness/Ugly
Author
Marguerite Blessington
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Genius
category

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Genius

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. – John F. Kennedy, in an address to Nobel Prize winners

Category:
Genius

Genius is childhood recaptured. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Genius

Since when was genius found respectable? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Category:
Genius

Random Quotes

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

Category:
Christmas

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Money

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system. – Theo de Raadt

Category:
communication

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need. – Karl Marx

Category:
Socialism