Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live
PersiusAlmost 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.
Albert PikeIn Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice BaringTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David HumeWe should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B PriestleyIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittPeople hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry LewisThe leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf HitlerGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine'Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.'
Charlie ChaplinI have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo BurnettThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanA book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl SandburgOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren AdamsNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandPavement slippery, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving. (January, 1795)
Mary RobinsonAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalI'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R Buckminster FullerTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldI used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
John LennonThere's no doubt he was in his own way a comic genius. He had this wonderful warmth and humour that came right through the screen and just embraced you. [on Ronnie Barker]
Nicholas ParsonsCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeLike many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario PuzoGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonA neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis AuchinclossHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonNeither 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovUntil one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielIt 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.
Lyndon JohnsonA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawFirst, 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.
David OgilvyGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart MillTalent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May AlcottThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsMen 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.
Max BeerbohmGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundNobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius
Walter Landor
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