If 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 HazlittIn Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice BaringFortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac DisraeliNature 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 HuntFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesFirst, 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 OgilvyTalent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May AlcottA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren AdamsThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia WoolfDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur KoestlerGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoGenius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh BillingsGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundNeither 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 MozartOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonAre you still hanging around? [to the ultra-pretentious Nick Robinson, BBC correspondent who speaks each word that comes out of his lips as though it is a work of sheer genius]
George W BushI 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 MitriGenius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De BuffonAlmost 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 PikeA 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 LandorTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartGenius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel ButlerA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraI 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 HollowayThe 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 VidalNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De Beauvoir'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 Chaplin'I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.'
Noel GallagherRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardThe 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 MillNobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter LippmannLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellLike many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo
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