Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandThe 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 VidalGenius 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 JoyceCuriosity, 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 HumeGenius sees the answer before the question
J Robert OppenheimerThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirThe 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 LippmannFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesAre 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 BushThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartI'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 EbdonTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Owen MeredithThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic AmielIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleDon'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 SartonPeople of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William HazlittGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardGenius 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 MoreAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalMany men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac DisraeliDiego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.
Bob WilsonThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusWe are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous HuxleyIn men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
CiceroEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac DisraeliThe principle mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers
Arthur KoestlerPeople hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry LewisThe especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency
Margaret FullerGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsIt 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 JohnsonLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth BarrettI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonTalent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm CowleyTo see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao TzuThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbGenius 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 MoreI 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 MitriOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordGenius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E B WhiteWhen my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
BeckThere's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar LevantHe 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 JamesonMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliGenius is childhood recalled at will.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire
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