Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich HeineA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B WhiteTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R Buckminster FullerA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren Adams'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 ChaplinTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellThe miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA 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 ButlerThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth BarrettNeither 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 MozartI 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 MitriThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalGenius is childhood recalled at will.
Pierre Charles BaudelaireIt 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 JohnsonFortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac DisraeliSometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Gustav JungThe 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 MillGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice HopkinsThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David HumeGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsI 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 LennonGenius 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 ParsonsI rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
Richard BurtonGenius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel ButlerI 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 BurnettI'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 SzilardThis 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 BevanFirst, 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 OgilvyWe 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 PriestleyDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonEveryone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
Georg LichtenbergThe 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 LippmannA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoycePeople hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry LewisBeware 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 does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerWhen 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.
BeckThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard Shaw
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