The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellGenius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C CeramAlmost 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 childhood recalled at will.
Pierre Charles BaudelaireI'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 miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude SteinGenius 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 MoreHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoycePeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittThere'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 ParsonsIt 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 JohnsonA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawThe 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 LippmannThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinBeware 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 GoetheThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbThe 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 BloomEveryone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
Georg LichtenbergFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundConceit 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 AlcottGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldIndustry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter LippmannGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeMany men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac DisraeliDon'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 SartonIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittI 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 LennonMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliBetter 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 GassetAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalGenius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh BillingsA neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis AuchinclossEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
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 JungI 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 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 Burton'I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.'
Noel GallagherShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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