“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
Part 4, Chapter 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
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Variant: Genius is eternal patience.
“Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience.”
La génie n'est utre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience.
Narrated by Herault de Séchelles ( La visite à Buffon, ou Voyage à Montbard http://www.atramenta.net/lire/voyage-a-montbard/3508, 1790), when speaking of a talk with Buffon in 1785. (Not in Buffon's works.) Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Variant: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
“Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.”
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
Source: Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor (1980), Chapter 1, “Mathematics and Humor” (p. 10)
“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
As quoted in New Cyclopædia of Illustrations (1870) by Elon Foster, p. 492