Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntGenius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir NabokovGenius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel ButlerAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalTalent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian LaraThere 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 the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C CeramGeniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W H AudenAny fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J G BallardLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordNothing 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 CoolidgeIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaIf 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 HazlittThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerAre 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 BushGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Cesare LombrosoEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac DisraeliNo communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity
Johann Lavater The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf HitlerEveryone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together
Georg LichtenbergThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth BarrettWe 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 PriestleyTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldTo see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao TzuCuriosity, 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 Hume'I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.'
Noel GallagherBeware 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 genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis DiderotPeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundSometimes, 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 JungIn 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 PoundGenius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare LombrosoThe 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 LippmannMarlon [Brando] is such a pure piece of animal flesh. He's pan-sexual, beyond normalcy of any kind. Once in a whlie, he'll give you a few minutes of his special genius - magic time.
Roy ScheiderEccentricity 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 MillA neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis AuchinclossShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyPeople hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry LewisLike many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario PuzoBetter 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 Gasset
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