Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinIn Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice BaringNow I think I'm good, but I don't think I'm a genius - Paul Daniels would have a good job here, I tell you.
Kevin BlackwellThe 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 BloomMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceI 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 BurnettGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoMen 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 Beerbohm'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 ChaplinNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerAre you still hanging around? [to the ultra-pretentious Nick Robinson, BBC correspondent who speaks each word that comes out of his lips as though it is a work of sheer genius]
George W BushIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth BarrettIf 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 HazlittGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice HopkinsThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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 AlcottYou 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 EliotIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaEccentricity 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 MillA neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis AuchinclossIndustry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter LippmannI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonThe capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science
James MadisonBeware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerThis island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin BevanIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude SteinI let my lads off training on Friday and took them ten-pin bowling instead because they were a bit tense. It turned out to be pure genius!
Ian HollowayLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielGenius 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 a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar LevantThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerLike many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario PuzoThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
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