Genius Quotes

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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother. Ayn Rand

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius. Honore de Balzac

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't. Donald Miller

I'm all in favor 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 Szilard

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. Amelia Barr

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you? Brent Weeks

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons. Josh Lieb

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work. J. M. W. Turner

There's a genius in all of us. Albert Einstein

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. Henry Theodore Tuckerman

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her George Bernard Shaw

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! E.A. Bucchianeri

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work. Robert Caro

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. Jennifer Donnelly

Like 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

If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain. Criss Jami

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero Gelett Burgess

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. Theodore Parker

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Marc Chagall

Genius is perseverance in disguise. Mike Newlin

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem. Robert Bly

Wit and humor belong to genius alone. Miguel de Cervantes

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. Carl Sandburg

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived. Bryant McGill

Every great genius has an admixture of madness. Aristotle

The real geniuses are the people who love life. Marty Rubin

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. Steig Larsson

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars. Mehmet Murat ildan

Genius is full of trash. Herman Melville

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part. Brian Wilson

A genius is the one most like himself. Thelonious Monk

Talent imitates, but genius steals. T. S. Eliot

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. J. G. Holland

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall. Suzanne Crowley

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius. Rutvik Oza

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her. Carolyn Elliott

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. Ernst Gombrich

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard. Orson Scott Card

Nature alone is the master of true genius. Leonardo da Vinci

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm. Charles Churchill

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius. Madame de Stael

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. Bryant McGill

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. Horace

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art. Shaun Jeffrey

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply! Bruce Lee

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce. John Green

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody. William John Locke

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. Lee Kuan Yew

Out of necessity comes genius. Pam Grier

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. Elbert Hubbard

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius. George Gershwin

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!" W. H. Murray

It takes a genius to whine appealingly. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. Abel Stevens

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others. Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck. Mason Cooley

I probably have genius. But no talent. Francis Ford Coppola

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius. Wazim Shaw

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert

Taste is the feminine of genius. Lord Edward FitzGerald

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius. Jenny Holzer

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. Edwin Percy Whipple

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself. Arthur C. Clarke

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. Oscar Wilde

Without passion, there is no genius. Theodor Mommsen

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. Leonardo da Vinci

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon! Mehmet Murat ildan

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people. Craig Newmark

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. R. Buckminster Fuller

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art. Oscar Wilde

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? Neil Gaiman

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Novalis

This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. Hugo

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. Anna Garlin Spencer

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work. Andre Maurois

Even a genius has his questions. Tupac Shakur

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body. Arthur Cravan

Genius is insanity right up until it works. Forrest Griffin

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme. Georges-Louis Leclerc

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. Isaac Stern

You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius. Debasish Mridha

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. Henry Ford

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. Andre Malraux

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. R. Buckminster Fuller

Genius does not excuse evil. Rick Riordan

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius. James Russell Lowell

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. Seth Godin

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. Joseph de Maistre

Genius is born-not paid Oscar Wilde

To genius life never grows commonplace. James Russell Lowell

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us. Anthony Horowitz

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work. Alexander Pope

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity! Plautus

The belly is the giver of genius. Aulus Persius Flaccus

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius. Ovid

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius. Chris Matakas

Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence. Auguste Rodin

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity. David Farland

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat. Buster Keaton

The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is sorrow's child. John Adams

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius. Amit Kalantri

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. Dr. An Wang

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better Elbert Hubbard

Common sense is the genius of mankind. Francois Guizot

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. Lydia M. Child

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long. Israel Zangwill

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war. Ninon de L'Enclos

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on. Orson Scott Card

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious? Ashleigh Brilliant

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind. Joseph Addison

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Only a genius can play a fool. Michael Rapaport

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. Rufus Wainwright

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends Josh Stern

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy. Albert M. Greenfield

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius. Henry Wilson Allen

Genius never desires what does not exist. Soren Kierkegaard

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. Cyril Connolly

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true. Dejan Stojanovic

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry. Julie Harris

Genius is clairvoyant. Abel Stevens

Genius is nothing but continued attention. Claude Adrien Helvetius

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. Criss Jami

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius. Minna Antrim

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness Erich Segal

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. William Winwood Reade

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain. Margaret Atwood

Agony without genius was gaucherie. Hortense Calisher

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. Albert Goodwill Spalding

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament. Isadora Duncan

Genius - the pursuit of madness. Criss Jami

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic. Amit Kalantri

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it. Michael R. LeGault

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. Edward Dahlberg

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. Criss Jami

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. Eoin Colfer

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

Genius is infinite painstaking. Michelangelo

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Aristotle

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! Mehmet Murat ildan

This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night Oscar Wilde

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius. Connie Brockway

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. Michelangelo Buonarroti

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't. Ben Marcus

I never said I was a genius. Orson Welles

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. Criss Jami

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be? Libba Bray

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. Ada Lovelace

Man is a genius when he is dreaming. Akira Kurosawa

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. Samuel Johnson

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Alexander Pope

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius. Anton Ehrenzweig

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity. Jean Houston

Genius is of no country. Charles Churchill

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. Oscar Wilde

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius. Thomas C. Foster

The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots. Ziad K. Abdelnour

In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance. Carolyn Elliott

Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. Albert Einstein

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. Kathleen Winsor

A person of genius should marry a person of character. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages. Jean de la Bruyere

My genius is in my nostrils. Friedrich Nietzsche

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. James M. Barrie

The genius is making a way out of no way. Henry Louis Gates

Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo

There is no off position on the genius switch. David Letterman

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals. Igor Stravinsky

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. Washington Allston

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? Criss Jami

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... John Geddes

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is independent of situation. Charles Churchill

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge. Niccolo Paganini

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them. Arlene Croce

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before. Criss Jami

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself Kanye West

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard

Genius: Die Einführung eines neuen Elementes in das intellektuelle Universum. Wordsworth, William

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. Malcolm Bradbury

You don't have to be a genius to invest well. Warren Buffett

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. Charles Peguy

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. Walter Lippmann

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves? Joyce Wycoff

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. Pitirim Sorokin

Before I was a genius I was a drudge. Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens

Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee

Patience is eternal genius. Michelangelo

Each man's soul is his genius. Xenocrates

Jim Henson was an absolute genius. Marcus Brigstocke

To silence the expression of your soul's code is to suffer. LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up. Jay-Z

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality Benjamin Franklin

Ambition beats genius % of the time. Jay Leno

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. Mahatma Gandhi

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Everyone is a genius after the fight. David Haye

Inspiration and genius -one and the same. Victor Hugo

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. Robert A. Heinlein

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. William Cowper

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well. Josh Billings

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me. Orson Scott Card

Consult the Genius of the Place in all. Alexander Pope

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. Walter Bagehot

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. John Denham

Genius is intellect constructive. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife Margaret Fuller

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. Bryant H. McGill

In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. Albert Einstein

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. Thomas Starr King

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.... Robertson Davies

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey! Ken Poirot

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins. Carl Henegan

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. Ludwig von Mises

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. John Lennon

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex. Albert Einstein

Genius lasts longer than beauty Oscar Wilde

A genius is a talented person who does his homework. Thomas A. Edison

The genius must have his freedom and his independence. Ayn Rand

The greatest form of genius is that which isn't noticed. Scott Nicholson

There is no genius without a mixture of madness. Seneca the Younger

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money. Doug Benson

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds. Edmund Clarence Stedman

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward. Walter Lippmann

Biomimicry is "¦ the conscious emulation of life's genius. Janine Benyus

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. Gloria Burgess

Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to. James McGregor

Rare is he who will concede genius. Juana

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed. Daniel Keyes

Genius is becoming something you were all along. David Whyte

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. George Henry Lewes

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. Carl von Clausewitz

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. Charles Churchill

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it. Inez Haynes Irwin

Madness in method, that's genius Frank Herbert

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. George Santayana

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. Iris Murdoch

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. Isaac D'Israeli

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.... Claude Bernard

It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express. Efiong Etuk

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? Ayn Rand

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. Eoin Colfer

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission. Kate Zambreno

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. Mirabeau B. Lamar

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings. Bryant McGill

A genius is a grownup that remained a kid. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence. W. H. Davies

Genius does not only pertain to the brain, it belongs above all to the heart. Juliette Drouet

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. Robert G. Ingersoll

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence. William Shakespeare

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind. Ray Davies

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius. Isaac D'Israeli

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds! Mehmet Murat ildan

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri Frederic Amiel

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics. Al Seckel

It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. Robert Green Ingersoll

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius. Ziad K. Abdelnour

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. Henri Bergson

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh. Charlie Chaplin

Beauty like hers is genius. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society Josh Stern

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. Wallace D. Wattles

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. Pete Seeger

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor. Tony Meloto

Taste is the common sense of genius. Victor Hugo

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age. Babette Deutsch

Despair and Genius are too oft connected. Lord Byron

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. E. O. Wilson

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius. Sam Kean

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. V. S. Pritchett

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Aristotle

The true genius shudders at incompleteness. Edgar Allan Poe

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius. Davis Love III

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite. Robert Fanney

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city. Gillian Bradshaw

Tell me, what will you do with your genius spark of consciousness? LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. Isaac D'Israeli

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. Seneca the Younger

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life. Oscar Wilde

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some. William Shakespeare

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive. Ian Fleming

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. Wendell Phillips

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way. Charles Bukowski

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. Rich Galen

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance. Steven Pressfield

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. Oscar Wilde

Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is talent exercised with courage. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Silence is all the genius a fool has. Zora Neale Hurston

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool. Mehmet Murat ildan

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. William Hazlitt

Genius points the way, talent takes it. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed Robert Kiyosaki

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. Georges-Louis Leclerc

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. George Eliot

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand Bangambiki Habyarimana

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius. Scott Lynch

Genius and taste don't go together. Helmut Newton

Genius is its own end. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin. Steve Jobs

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world. Robin Sharma

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end. Orson Scott Card

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself. Lisi Harrison

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor. Henry David Thoreau

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! Brian Spellman

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Abigail Adams

Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you. Sneha Abraham

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. William James

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. Malcolm Cowley

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Towering genius distains a beaten path. Abraham Lincoln

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways. Bryce Courtenay

Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off. Megan McCafferty

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius. Brian Herbert

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. Ludwig von Mises

Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt

Accept your genius and say what you think. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. Mikhail Tal

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. Van Wyck Brooks

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius. Henry Fuseli

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care. Orson Scott Card

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned. Tony Taccone

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Denis Diderot

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius Grace Hartigan

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius Salvador Dali

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. Mike Norton

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac. Erica Jong

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action! Simon Sinek

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. Thomas A. Edison

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. Jack Vance

Genius, when young, is divine. Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest genius is the most indebted person. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. Bernard Berenson

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell

There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life. Palle Yourgrau

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. Elizabeth Gilbert

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness. Albert Einstein

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. Jason Calacanis

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. Adolf Hitler

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects] Jonathan Swift

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan. T. Boone Pickens

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. Ninette de Valois

If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world. Bryant H. McGill

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot. Charles Bukowski

Genius has no taste for weaving sand. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious. Albert Einstein

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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. Calvin Coolidge

A genius is a man who has two great ideas. Jacob Bronowski

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. Edwin Percy Whipple

There is no element of genius without some form of madness. Leonardo DiCaprio

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli. Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

Genius is intuition on fire. Holbrook Jackson

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. Criss Jami

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. Friedrich Nietzsche

No man ever followed his genius til it misled him. Henry David Thoreau

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Robert Aris Willmott

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison

You're a Genius all the time. Jack Kerouac

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. Mehmet Murat ildan

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. Quintilian

The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source. VicDo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. Victor Hugo

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. Peter Thiel

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. Denis Dutton

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is. Mary Hunter Austin

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles. Stanley Jordan

To understand an artist is to be a genius. Andrew Lakey

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius... Kenji Mizoguchi

The mainspring of genius is curiosity. Charles Baudelaire

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. Henry Van Dyke

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

These are the times when a genius wants to live. Abigail Adams

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. Thomas Carlyle

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life. Alain de Botton

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. Mark Twain

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra. Myles Munroe

Even the genius ask questions. Tupac Shakur

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. Sarah Josepha Hale

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. Seneca the Younger

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes. Berkeley Breathed

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there... Stanley Victor Paskavich

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation? Stanley Victor Paskavich

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it. Solange nicole

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age Barbara Leaming

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. Oscar Wilde

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work. Leopold Auer

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. Jasper Carrott

A happy genius is the gift of nature. John Dryden

Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. Gunter Grass

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. Alphonse de Lamartine

Talent borrows, genius steals! Oscar Wilde

Genius must be born, it can't be taught. John Dryden

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. Benjamin Franklin

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline. George Eliot

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. Phillips Brooks

Genius is fostered by industry. Marcus Tullius Cicero

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with. Knut Hamsun

Genius appeals to the future. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. Ambrose Bierce

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious. Kevin Michel

It requires more than mere genius to be an author. Jean de la Bruyere

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. John Boyle O'Reilly

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. Benjamin Disraeli

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards. Napoleon Bonaparte

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. William Hogarth

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius. Hannah More

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame. Gilbert K. Chesterton

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you. Bill Cosby

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Christian Nestell Bovee

Genius has no brother. Edward Bulwer

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. Mark Twain

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. Joseph Joubert

Sticking to it is the genius. Thomas A. Edison

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. Criss Jami

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways Bangambiki Habyarimana

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. Elbert Hubbard

A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person... Michael Meade

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. Luc de Clapiers

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way. Seb Kirby

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. Terry Pratchett

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, st Baron Lytton

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow. Jean Houston

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. James Russell Lowell

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Edmond de Goncourt

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that? Seth Godin

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design. Stanley Victor Paskavich

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about. B. F. Skinner

There is no genius where there is not simplicity. Leo Tolstoy

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. Henry David Thoreau

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. Amos Bronson Alcott

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ? Stanley Victor Paskavich

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius. Mary MacLane

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. Madame de Stael

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. Missy Elliot

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. Walter Savage Landor

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde

The step between genius and insanity is very short. Albert Einstein

Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground. Marty Rubin

Genius is only a superior power of seeing. John Ruskin

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. Thomas Huxley

If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better ~ Aarush Kashyap Kirtida Gautam

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! Mehmet Murat ildan

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world. Oliver Hardy

All genuine progress results from finding new facts Wheeler McMillen

There's a genius in everyone. It's either asleep or awake Constance Chuks Friday

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. Criss Jami

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. Lincoln Steffens

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. Robert Kiyosaki

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible. Edward Abbey

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy. Thomas Love Peacock

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. Albert Camus

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men--that is genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. John Hendy

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms

Passion is the genius of genius. Tony Robbins

I place my fingers upon these keys typing , dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. Aberjhani

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack. Greg Proops

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. Oscar Wilde

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. Edgard Varese

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius. Voltaire

Necessity is the spur of genius. Honore de Balzac

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience. Tim Minchin

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. George Bernard Shaw

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one. Criss Jami

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird! Mehmet Murat ildan

What is genius or courage without a heart? Oliver Goldsmith

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say. Jenny Offill

Giving calls for genius. Ovid

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. Otto Weininger

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. Joyce Cary

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever. James Lileks

Passion is the genesis of genius. Tony Robbins

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent. Emile M. Cioran

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing. David Brier

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Newman

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. William Saroyan

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. Frederic Henry Hedge

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living. Oscar Wilde

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one. David Ogilvy

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. William Blake

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Louisa May Alcott

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind. Steven Moffat

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big Charles Garfield

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art. Evelyn Waugh

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet. Criss Jami

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. Diane Setterfield

I can't take his genius any more. Rita Hayworth

The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far. Jean Cocteau

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. Ovid

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. Robert A. Heinlein

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Cesare Lombroso

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W. Ceram

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius. Ron Kaufman

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow. Albert Einstein

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition. Isaac Watts

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geniuses have the shortest biographies. Claire Messud

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration. Pindar

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius. Charlotte Bronte

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly. Emile Augier

Necessity is often the spur to genius. Honore de Balzac

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you. Seth Godin

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. Edwin Percy Whipple

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. Criss Jami

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago. Virginia Woolf

Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, Wylie Dufresne

One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out. John Lee Hooker

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. Albert Einstein

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ... George Eliot

Genius is nourished from within and without. Robert Aris Willmott

They think I'm crazy, and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius. Mel Gibson

Genius knows where the questions are hidden. Mason Cooley

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales % in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests % in months. David Brier

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Morley

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. Clarence Day

Genius is 2% talent and 98% percent hard work... Albert Einstein

I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa. Lance Conrad

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. Criss Jami

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness! Israelmore Ayivor

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is Zinedine Zidane

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges. Marguerite Gardiner

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself. Georgette Heyer

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. Heinrich Heine

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate. John C. Maxwell

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. Aristotle

Genius Borrows nobly. Ralph Waldo Emerson

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius Michael Vaughan

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. Benjamin Disraeli

Twelve for ... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under percent. Dick Vitale

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. Orson Scott Card

There is no any secret to being a genius, all you have to do is be yourself. Shawn Lukas

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. Walter Lippmann

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular! Ramana Pemmaraju

Genius is the art of taking pains Claude C. Hopkins

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, st Baron Lytton

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance. Eric Lau

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan! T. Boone Pickens

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. Immanuel Kant

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. Arthur Rimbaud

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Clive Bell

God is the poetic genius in each of us. William Blake

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will. Charles Baudelaire

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. Seneca the Younger

Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. Charles Chaplin

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. Janet Flanner

Everyone is a genius at being themselves. Thelonious Monk

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. Arthur Schopenhauer

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity. Jonah Lehrer

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius! Mehmet Murat ildan

Works of genius are the first things in the world. John Keats

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound

Genius involves both envy and calumny. Alexander Pope

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist. Amit Kalantri

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it. Eoin Colfer

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. Otto Weininger

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. Baha'i International Community

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. Pat Conroy

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. Margaret Fuller

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished. Aubrey Menen

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it. Horace

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness Seneca the Younger

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov

Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box. Toba Beta

Genius requires an audience. Jacqueline Carey

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.... Margot Asquith

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Henri Frederic Amiel

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions. Carolyn Elliott

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. Keith Richards

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. Oscar Wilde

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood. H. L. Mencken

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle. Simon Heffer

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless. Susan Bell

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. Ogwo David Emenike

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying. Janet Flanner

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. Thomas Carlyle

If people are saying you're wrong that's probably a good sign that you're a genius. Steve Stoute

Der Genius allein kann die verletzte Unschuld herstellen. Arnim, Bettina von

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. James Russell Lowell

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. Jack Kerouac

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. Walter Russell

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. Christopher Quill

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned. Bing Gordon

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine. Oscar Wilde

Even genius is tied to profit. Pindar

Don't think of your goals - think FROM them. Tap into your genius. Robert G. Allen

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education. James Morcan

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away. Thomas Gainsborough

Genius is percent inspiration, percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. D. H. Lawrence

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it Horace

The persecution of genius fosters its influence. Tacitus

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career. Criss Jami

It is always well to get near to men of genius. William Henry Moody

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. John Stuart Mill

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. Max Gluckman

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. Amelia E. BarrMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Arthur Conan Doyle

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. Vishwas Chavan

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair. Edith Wharton

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius. Robert Schumann

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Samuel Goldwyn

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are. Jim Shepard

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind. Kelly Miller

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. Friedrich Schiller

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius. Bob Dylan

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is a rising stock market. John Kenneth Galbraith

Genius is finding the invisible link between things. Vladimir Nabokov

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. Gertrude Stein

Taste is the next gift to genius. James Russell Lowell

Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears. Nathaniel Bowditch

genius accepts genius unconditionally Dan Brown

One genius is about all a house will hold. Isabel Paterson

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ... George Sand

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings

Talent should minister to genius. Robert Browning

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Benjamin Disraeli

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius! Gene Wilder

Execution is the chariot of genius. William Blake

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution. T.F. Hodge

Bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent... John Geddes

Genius is power, talent is applicability. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod. Bill Maher

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. William Hazlitt

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin

We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses. Criss Jami

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. Charles Dudley Warner

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived. Criss Jami

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll. Jimmy Page

The gratitude you receive from others is a reflection of your genius. Danielle LaPorte

You cannot capture warmth in a toast, but you can capture toast in a warmth. Erik Altenhofen

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius. Roy H. Williams

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. Steven Erikson

Genius sees the answer before the question. J. Robert Oppenheimer

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. Iain M. Banks

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. Philippe Starck

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. Jonah Winter

Crazy often means being exceptionally creative Constance Chuks Friday

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. George Bancroft

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals. C.W. Ceram

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'. Steve Earle

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple. Pete Seeger

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. Criss Jami

It is for truth that God created genius. Alphonse de Lamartine

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is. Shane Snow

Genius is talent provided with ideals. W. Somerset Maugham

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. Criss Jami

Ages are All Equal. But Genius is Always Above The Age. William Blake

Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows! Mehmet Murat ildan

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away. Criss Jami

Genius is never understood in its own time. Bill Watterson

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius. Kate Zambreno

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate Horace Mann

Genius is childhood recaptured. Jean Baudrillard

Consider yourself a genius; you will be amazed at what you can achieve Bangambiki Habyarimana

Adversity is the midwife of genius Napoleon Bonaparte

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius. Kiersten White

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. John Stuart Mill

Unimaginative thinking has never produced a genuis Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. Honore de Balzac

Genius is individual, scenius is communal. Brian Eno

Men like honesty when it favours them. Aniekee Tochukwu

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. Maude Adams

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius. Bob Dylan

Every man is a genius, for God exists in all men. Theodore Volgoff

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth. Wallace D. Wattles

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius. Ogwo David Emenike

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Walter Russell

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. Joseph Chenier

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked. Orson Scott Card

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Alert Einstein

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. Leslie Stephen

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. Benjamin Franklin

Passion is like genius: a miracle. Romain Rolland

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid. M.F. Moonzajer

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York. Marty Rubin

Without patience, there can be no genius. Robin Sharma

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out. Jean-Paul Sartre

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced. Herbert Spencer

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. Henry David Thoreau

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of. Criss Jami

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration. Thomas A. Edison

The source of genius is imagination alone. Eugene Delacroix

As a child i was nothing short of a genius, as a man i got used to stupidity. Paul Bamikole

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. James Russell Lowell

The genius is in making the complex simple. Albert Einstein

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool. Idowu Koyenikan

I believe that we have the first genius of the st century, Leo Messi. Jorge Valdano

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. Austin O'Malley

If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, "Everything stinks." Then, you're never wrong. That's how much of a genius I am! That's how I got to where I am today! Wilbur J. Cobb

When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside! Mehmet Murat ildan

Genius is lasting minutes longer than the other side. Donald Petersen

Hitler is a prodigious genius. David Lloyd George

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. Honore de Balzac

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity. Plutarch

If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don't accept me as genius Because they aren't genius to belief me as genius. Hasil Paudyal

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. David Brier

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. James Russell Lowell

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness. Edward Bulwer

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. Susan Cain

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss. Guillermo del Toro

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness. Ben Jonson

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. Hugh Blair

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never Lord Byron

There are two things that kill a genius: a fatal disease and contentment. Clarence Darrow

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Steady work turns genius to a loom. George Eliot

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual. Otto Weininger

I am GOOD, i am GREAT, i'm a GENIUS and I know it. Constance Chuks Friday

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven. Susan Sontag

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever. Paul Valery

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. Margaret Millar

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! William Blake

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals. Tennessee Celeste Claflin

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The unrecognized genius of our time. William March

Les Miles looks like the mad science genius. Todd Blackledge

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. Thomas Huxley

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. Harriet Martineau

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. Richard M. Nixon

I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood from a Hufflepuff. Tara Gilesbie

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. Robert Bly

Better 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

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. Ovid

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy de Maupassant

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight. Leo Gordon

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. Horace Mann

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more. Ogwo David Emenike

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind. Soren Kierkegaard

To see things in the seed, that is genius. Laozi

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal. Criss Jami

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Charles de Gaulle

You never know your true genius untill you do what you love. Wouter Van Gastel

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live. Aulus Persius Flaccus

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains. Napoleon Hill

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone. Tom Robbins

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius. Gordon B. Hinckley

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain. Thomas M. Disch

Neither 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 Mozart

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things. Henry James

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available Victor Hugo

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Aristotle

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. Henry Ward Beecher

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses. Walter Russell

Genius is 98% perspiration and 2% inspiration. Thomas A. Edison

Genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot. John Batchelor

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him. Donald Trump

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge. R.N. Prasher

Equality has no place for genius. Allen Bloom

A good title is a work of a genius! E. Haldeman-Julius

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity. Joyce Carol Oates

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will. Trenton Lee Stewart

Boldness in itself is genius. L. Ron Hubbard

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. J. K. Rowling

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker Darynda Jones

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire! Hector Berlioz

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Boldness is a crucial element of genius. Horace Freeland Judson

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in. Charles M. Schwab

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh... Henry Miller

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos. Jens Voigt

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity. Allyson Felix

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. Charles Baudelaire

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. Criss Jami

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint. Robert Browning

Genius is another word for magic. Margot Fonteyn

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas Eidson

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. Moses Harvey

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