Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleI 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 LennonGenius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra PoundBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth BarrettThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusGenius 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 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 one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonThe 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 LippmannI 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 principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerNeither 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 MozartRamp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
Ben JonsonThe miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity
Johann Lavater Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellIn men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
CiceroI'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 SzilardA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
Samuel ButlerAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairTalent 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 AlcottGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich HeineThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David HumeEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac DisraeliLove is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles PeguyIndustry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter LippmannHe was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude SteinFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesMany a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
G H LewesA man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra PoundGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerGift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Jane Ellice HopkinsGenius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De BuffonHe 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 JamesonBetter 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 GassetThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartThe 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 VidalThe 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 BloomA genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Lauren AdamsThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max BeerbohmLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonEven when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work
Brian Lara'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 ChaplinGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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