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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel Butler

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Curiosity, 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 Hume

Genius sees the answer before the question
J Robert Oppenheimer

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh Hunt

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De Beauvoir

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.
Walter Lippmann

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson Davies

Are 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 Bush

There is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie Stewart

I'm a different style for Ronnie O'Sullivan, who's a genius, but I've just beaten the world champion. People can say what they like but I don't care.
Peter Ebdon

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen Meredith

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce Feirstein

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

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.
May Sarton

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

Genius 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 More

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore Vidal

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac Disraeli

Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob Wilson

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville Cardus

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac Disraeli

The principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur Koestler

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret Fuller

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

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.
Lyndon Johnson

Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel Gallagher

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth Barrett

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton Heston

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

The divine egoism that is genius.
Mary Webb

Genius 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 More

I said, 'Look, I don't care how, who, what, where, when. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius and I want to be a part of this project.'
Rhona Mitri

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of Oxford

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B White

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Beck

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own
Anna Brownell Jameson

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli

Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire



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