Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesPeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielDon'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.
May SartonMany a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
G H LewesThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David HumeNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren AdamsAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinI 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 Burnett'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 ChaplinThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartEveryone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
Georg LichtenbergAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice HopkinsGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardLike many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario PuzoFortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac DisraeliIt 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 JohnsonThe man is a fucking genius. When you walk on set and you see the environment, the costumes, and you've got the make-up, it really makes it easy. [on Ridley Scott]
Orlando BloomGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerWe are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous HuxleyMarlon [Brando] is such a pure piece of animal flesh. He's pan-sexual, beyond normalcy of any kind. Once in a whlie, he'll give you a few minutes of his special genius - magic time.
Roy ScheiderNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac DisraeliTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsGenius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C CeramOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGeniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H AudenMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBooks 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.
Joseph AddisonMany men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac DisraeliI'm all in favour of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo SzilardPavement slippery, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving. (January, 1795)
Mary RobinsonUntil 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 GoetheGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovIn Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice BaringGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah MoreThere'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 ParsonsBetter beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega Y GassetThe leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler
Pick another category
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