Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
~By Anna Pavlova ~
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
~By Randy Newman ~
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
~By Alexander Hamilton Stephens ~
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
~By Sid Caesar ~
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
~By Amy Poehler ~
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
~By Ken Burns ~
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
~By Man Ray ~
Genius 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.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
~By Billy Wilder ~
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
~By Walt Whitman ~
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
~By Andre Malraux ~
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
~By James Lipton ~
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
~By Brittany Murphy ~
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
~By Maude Adams ~
The lucky person passes for a genius.
~By Euripides ~
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
~By Glenn Close ~
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
~By Federico Fellini ~
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
~By Victor Hugo ~
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
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.
~By Max Gluckman ~
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
~By Kathleen Winsor ~
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
~By E. B. White ~
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
~By Michael York ~
We 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.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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.
~By John Henry Newman ~
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~By Bruce Feirstein ~
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
~By Phil Gramm ~
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
~By Bern Williams ~
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
~By Neil Bogart ~
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
~By Clive Bell ~
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
~By Andre Breton ~
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
~By Mario Puzo ~
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
Don'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!
~By May Sarton ~
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
~By Betty Buckley ~
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
~By Italo Calvino ~
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Eccentricity 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.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
~By Mark Twain ~
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
~By Edgard Varese ~
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color 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.
~By Joseph Priestley ~
Only a genius can play a fool.
~By Michael Rapaport ~
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
~By David Brainerd ~
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
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