Genius Quotes
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The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n (Quote by - Anna Garlin Spencer)
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught. (Quote by - John Dryden)
He is like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him. (Quote by - William Lyon MacKenzie)
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
Genius Borrows nobly. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. (Quote by - William James)
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. (Quote by - Mary Todd Lincoln)
Talent does whatever it wants to do.... Genius does only what it can. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
In the old days one merely gawked at these unfortunates. Donahue's genius is to get them to talk. (Quote by - Charles Krauthammer)
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. (Quote by - Walter Russell)
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)
We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Genius is eternal patience. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds (Quote by - David Hume)
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Since when was genius found respectable? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
We are opposites - he is very methodical and is a computer genius. I am not. Between my Dyslexia and ADHD, it was a miracle that I made it through school at all. (Quote by - Brian Walker)
A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. (Quote by - Otto Weininger)
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. (Quote by - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. (Quote by - Robert Hughes)
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Accept your genius and say what you think. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more. (Quote by - Kathe Kollwitz)
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. (Quote by - Lydia M Child)
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. (Quote by - William James)
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. (Quote by - Horace)
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination. (Quote by - C. Holman)
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. (Quote by - Hugh Trevor-Roper)
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination. (Quote by - Michael Cibenko)
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. (Quote by - Fulton J. Sheen)
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving (Quote by - Frank Rooney)
Ridicule is the Burden of Genius. (Quote by - Daffy Duck)
There's a Genius in all of us. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! (Quote by - May Sarton)
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. (Quote by - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The word genius isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. (Quote by - Joe Theisman)
Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. (Quote by - Rufus Wainwright)
God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising. (Quote by - Walter C. Klein)
He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me. (Quote by - Brad Pitt)
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Genius is never understood in its own time. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about. (Quote by - Robert A. Schumann)
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. (Quote by - Anna Pavlova)
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys. (Quote by - Casey Affleck)
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. (Quote by - Edmond de Goncourt)
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
It takes a genius to whine appealingly. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. (Quote by - Clive Bell)
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Fanaticism appears where a genius surrounds himself with a whole bunch of idiots. (Quote by - Paul Carvel)
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb. (Quote by - John Forster)
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness (Quote by - Seneca)
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. (Quote by - Gamal Abdel Nasser)
Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down. (Quote by - The Talmud)
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. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. (Quote by - Edwin P. Whipple)
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius (Quote by - William Blake)
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. (Quote by - John Denham)
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. (Quote by - Janet Flanner)
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. (Quote by - William James)
Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Genius is born, not paid. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. (Quote by - Dennis Ritchie)
You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, live peace, and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. (Quote by - Isaac Disraeli)
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves -- it's just a question of finding the subject. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. (Quote by - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.(Quote by - )
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. (Quote by - Walter Wriston)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Talent works, genius creates. (Quote by - Robert A. Schumann)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. (Quote by - Seneca)
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. (Quote by - Kim Cattrall)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Genius is only patience. (Quote by - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)
I have nothing to declare but my genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. (Quote by - James Joyce)
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest (Quote by - Henry Home)
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is genius! This girl is ahead of her time. This girl is a prodigy. (Quote by - Zach Braff)
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. (Quote by - Robert Henri)
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. (Quote by - Louis Aragon)
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him; (Quote by - Guillaume Thomas Raynal)
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household? (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. (Quote by - Edward O. Wilson)
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Genius is nothing but continued attention. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. (Quote by - Joe Theisman)
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! (Quote by - Orson Welles)
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people (Quote by - Phil Gramm)
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. (Quote by - Giorgio Vasari)
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place. (Quote by - Hazel Henderson)
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? (Quote by - Bette Greene)
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F. Schumacker)
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. (Quote by - Charles Bukowski)
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? (Quote by - Charles de Lint)
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Mike is a genius. I can really see him as Keith. He's amazing when you meet him, so clever. (Quote by - Roger Daltrey)
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. (Quote by - Richard Buckminster Fuller)
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Lavant)
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. (Quote by - Margaret Lee Runbeck)
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Genius of any kind is the ability and willingness to leave the known world behind and explore new territory. (Quote by - Karla Mclaren)
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. (Quote by - Edgard Varese)
Genius is an African who dreams up snow (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds. (Quote by - Phil Bredesen)
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. (Quote by - Man Ray)
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius. (Quote by - Brian Clough)
Even a genius has his questions. (Quote by - Tupac Shakur)
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
Genius is talent set on fire by courage (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
No great genius is without an admixture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. (Quote by - An Wang)
A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Passion is the genesis of genius. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Genius has no taste for weaving sand. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. (Quote by - Anna Pavlova)
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. (Quote by - John Taylor Gatto)
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The greatest genius is the most indebted person. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains (Quote by - Jane Ellice Hopkins)
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
That would make Lions' president Matt Millen look like a genius. For once in his life. (Quote by - Joey Harrington)
But genius must be born, and never can be taught. (Quote by - John Dryden)
If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius. (Quote by - Davis Love III)
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius (Quote by - Larry Leissner)
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man (Quote by - Charlton Heston)
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise (Quote by - Bernard de Bonnard)
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
It will work. I am a marketing genius. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. (Quote by - Madeleine Albright)
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains. (Quote by - Roger Sessions)
To see things in the seed, that is genius. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. (Quote by - Joey Lauren Adams)
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius (Quote by - Pablo de Sarasate)
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. (Quote by - John Watson Foster)
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction — his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to. (Quote by - Bret Easton Ellis)
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. (Quote by - Otto Weininger)
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Lacordaire)
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too. (Quote by - Cyrus Augustus Bartol)
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. (Quote by - Calvin & Hobbes)
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to become, ... Would I have written a better novel than Margaret Mitchell? Hell no. (Quote by - Pat Conroy)
Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius (Quote by - Marshall Cook)
People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. (Quote by - Brouhours)
It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big (Quote by - Charles Garfield)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. (Quote by - Adrienne Clarkson)
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. (Quote by - Christopher Quill)
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
There is no moral virtue in being endowed with genius rather than talent: It is a gift of the gods or the luck of the genes. (Quote by - Dorothy Green)
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
He was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh (Quote by - Eddie Izzard)
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. (Quote by - Bruce Feirstein)
Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech. (Quote by - Robert Menzies)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie (Quote by - Puzant Kevork Thomajan)
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Freedom is the only law which genius knows. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep (Quote by - Cowboy Proverb)
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or voluntary. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. (Quote by - Mario Puzo)
I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon. (Quote by - Noel Gallagher)
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. (Quote by - Edmund Wilson)
There is no off position on the genius switch. (Quote by - David Letterman)
Hunger is the handmaid of genius (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
Common sense is the genius of humanity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Every true genius is bound to be naive. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
See, that's what geniuses know, ... They know they're a genius. When geniuses take the test they say, 'well, I'm a genius, of course, I'm going to score.' (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Genius is talent provided with ideals. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way (Quote by - William James)
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire. (Quote by - John Forster)
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. (Quote by - Jerry Lewis)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities (Quote by - Cesare Lombroso)
We allow no geniuses around our Studio. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg)
