Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraI have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar WildeCuriosity, 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 HumeThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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 MitriThere's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar LevantGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoThis 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 BevanTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldEvery man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardWhen 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.
BeckGenius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Kathe KollwitzI'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 EbdonThe leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf HitlerThe 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 MadisonThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerHe 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 JamesonMany men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac DisraeliTalent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur KoestlerThe 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 BloomThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanA book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl SandburgFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesDon'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 SartonGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren AdamsA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandGenius 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 GassetRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonI 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 BurnettThe 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 MillWe 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 PriestleyBeware 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 GoetheA 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 LandorThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia WoolfThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerThe divine egoism that is genius.
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