The 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 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 BloomTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerConceit 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 AlcottEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraPeople hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry LewisGenius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh BillingsEccentricity 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 MillThe 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 miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellGenius 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 MoreNow 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 BlackwellThere'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 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 MitriSometimes, 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 JungDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonUntil one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsTalent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich HeineThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartPavement slippery, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving. (January, 1795)
Mary RobinsonFortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac DisraeliThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntGeniuses 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.
AristotleThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanLove is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles PeguyIn 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... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundI 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 BurtonThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia WoolfThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundI'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 SzilardI 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 FullerGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCreative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall CookWe 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 PriestleyI 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 BurnettNobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
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