Even when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraGenius 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'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 ChaplinPavement 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 VidalThe 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 VidalGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia WoolfMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonEccentricity 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 MillAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielGeniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H AudenThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithBetter 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 principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonThe 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 MillHe 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 JamesonThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerI 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 HollowayA 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 LandorConceit 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.
Louisa May AlcottTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldIn 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 MoreI have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar WildeA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice HopkinsPeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceCreative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall CookThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairAlmost 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 PikeGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B WhiteYou 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 EliotGenius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C CeramA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
Samuel ButlerI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonNeither 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 MozartEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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